Claim · model-written summary
Corn ear size and weight did not differ significantly between Bt and insecticide-sprayed plants.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- Bte0
- Outcome
- corn ear size and weighte0
- Direction
- no significant differencee0
- Comparator
- insecticide-sprayed plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“there was no significant difference in corn ear size and weight, nor in kernel yield, when comparing Bt and insecticide-sprayed plants.”
Title
Impact of Bt sweet corn on lepidopteran pests in Midwestern Brazil
Altair Marcos Schneider; Lessando Moreira Gontijo; Lilian Lucia Costa Scientia Agricola 2019. doi:10.1590/1678-992x-2017-0176
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Bt corn slowed defoliation caused by S. frugiperda.
- Intervention effect Bt plants had less severe ear injury, especially kernel injury.
- Intervention effect Bt corn had fewer S. frugiperda larvae.
- Intervention effect Bt corn had fewer Helicoverpa spp. larvae.
- Intervention effect Insecticide application did not increase protection of Bt sweet corn.
- Intervention effect Kernel yield did not differ significantly between Bt and insecticide-sprayed plants.