{"id":16216,"date":"2013-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130103-04n"},"modified":"2013-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T22:00:00","slug":"gm-crops-increase-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/gm-crops-increase-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Crops Increase Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Over the past 16 years, vast plantings of transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from the bacterium <i>Bacillus thuringiensis<\/i> (Bt) have helped to control several major insect pests<sup>1, 2, 3, 4, 5<\/sup> and reduce the need for insecticide sprays<sup>1, 5, 6<\/sup>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Because broad-spectrum insecticides kill arthropod natural enemies that provide biological control of pests, the decrease in use of insecticide sprays associated with Bt crops could enhance biocontrol services<sup>7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v487\/n7407\/full\/nature11153.html#\/contrib-auth\" >www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v487\/n7407\/full\/nature11153.html#\/contrib-auth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: China, ladybirds, lacewings, spiders, aphid pests, insecticide sprays, predators, maize, peanut, soybean, agricultural landscapes<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Over the past 16 years, vast plantings of transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from the bacterium <i>Bacillus thuringiensis<\/i> (Bt) have helped to control several major<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[20908,4336,4339,4337,4338],"class_list":["post-16216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-chinese-academy-of-agricultural-sciences-caas","supplier-french-national-institute-for-agricultural-research-inra","supplier-institute-of-plant-protection-china","supplier-national-agro-technical-extension-and-service-center","supplier-state-key-laboratory-for-biology-of-plant-diseases-and-insect-pests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16216"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}