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Reduced caterpillar damage can benefit plant bugs in Bt cotton

Eisenring, Michael ; Naranjo, Steven E. ; Bacher, Sven ; Abbott, Angelique ; Meissle, Michael ; Romeis, Jörg

In: Scientific Reports, 2019, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 2727

Bt cotton was genetically modified to produce insecticidal proteins targeting Lepidopteran pests and is therefore only minimally affected by caterpillar damage. This could lead to reduced levels of inherent, systemically inducible defensive compounds in Bt cotton which might benefit other important cotton herbivores such as plant bugs. We studied the effects of plant defense induction on the...