Louise A. Malone

TL;DR: GM plants expressing other insect-resistant proteins that have a broader spectrum of activity have been tested on only a limited number of nontarget species and appear to have little impact on soil biota such as earthworms, collembolans, and general soil microflora.

TL;DR: The PREDICTS project as discussed by the authors provides a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use.

TL;DR: Current findings suggest that transgenic plant impacts on pollinators will depend on a case-by-case analysis of the gene concerned and its expression in the parts of the plant ingested by bees.

TL;DR: The ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene region of the microsporidium, Nosema apis, has been examined and the intergenic spacer is shown to be heterogeneous, showing variation in sequence and restriction sites rather than length and containing sequence repeats, which are a characteristic feature of intergenic spacers.

TL;DR: The transport and fate of quantum dots (QDs) in the total environment: from soils, through their uptake into plants, to their passage through insects following ingestion, suggest that exposure scenarios for QDs in thetotal environment could be quite complex and variable in each environmental domain.