Claim · model-written summary
Caterpillar weight gain, development duration and pupal weight differed little between sublethal Bt concentrations.
- Interactor
- M . unipuncta
Mythimna unipunctae0pest - Outcome
- weight gain, duration of development, or pupal weighte0
- Direction
- few differencese0
Zea maysVerbatim
t0“maize”
e0“the larvae of M . unipuncta fed on the various diets showed few differences in weight gain, duration of development, or pupal weight between sublethal Bt concentrations”
Title
Processing of the maize Bt toxin in the gut of Mythimna unipuncta caterpillars
Meritxell Pérez‐Hedo; Dániel Reiter; Carmen López; et al. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 2013. doi:10.1111/eea.12074
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Larvae rapidly excreted a large part of ingested toxin.
- Association Toxin elimination, degradation or sequestration in the peritrophic membrane increased with dose and feeding duration.
- Observation Little toxin reached the larval midgut epithelium and binding sites.
- Observation Bt-fed larvae recovered quickly after transfer to a non-Bt diet.