Haonan Zhang

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of natural gas, renewable energy and nuclear energy consumption on economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in the ten highest CO2 emitting countries within a multivariate context for the duration of 1990-2014.

TL;DR: It is shown that the most common resistance alleles in field populations of cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, selected with Bt cotton in northern China, had recessive cadherin mutations, including the deletion mutation identified via laboratory selection, which suggests that resistance management strategies must account for diverse resistance allele in field-selected populations, including nonrecessive alleles.

TL;DR: It is implied that natural refuges delayed resistance, but were not as effective as an equivalent area of non-Bt cottonRefuges, which could slow further increases in resistance.

TL;DR: Responsibility to Cry1Ac was significantly lower in 13 field populations from northern China, where Bt cotton has been planted intensively, than in two populations from sites in northwestern China where exposure to Bt Cotton has been limited, implying that resistance toCry1Ac in northern China is a specific adaptation caused by exposure to this toxin in Btotton.

TL;DR: The results not only provide strong reverse genetics evidence for HaCad as a functional receptor of Cry1Ac, but also demonstrate that the CRISPR/Cas9 technique can act as a powerful and efficient genome editing tool to study gene function in a global agricultural pest, H. armigera.