Transgenic potatoes for potato cyst nematode control can replace pesticide use without impact on soil quality.

ABSTRACT: Current and future global crop yields depend upon soil quality to which soil organisms make an important contribution. The European Union seeks to protect European soils and their biodiversity for instance by amending its Directive on pesticide usage. This poses a challenge for control of Globodera pallida (a potato cyst nematode) for which both natural resistance and rotational control are inadequate. One approach of high potential is transgenically based resistance. This work demonstrates the potential in the field of a new transgenic trait for control of G. pallida that suppresses root invasion. It also investigates its impact and that of a second transgenic trait on the non-target soil nematode community. We establish that a peptide that disrupts chemoreception of nematodes without a l

SUBMITTER: Green J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3281046 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature