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Nematode

Research from S. Hoss et al has provided new information about nematode

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, August 1st, 2008

"The effects of the insecticidal CrylAb protein from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) on the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, were studied with soil from experimental fields cultivated with transgenic Bt corn (MON810) and with trypsinized CrylAb protein expressed in Escherichia coli. The content of CrylAb protein was above the detection limit of an ELISA test in only half of the soil samples obtained from transgenic plots, ranging from 0. 19 to 1.31 ng g(-1) dry weight," researchers in Starnberg, Germany report.

"In a laboratory bioassay, C elegans was exposed to rhizosphere and bulk soil from fields with isogenic or transgenic corn or to solutions of CrylAb protein (0, 24,...

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