Honey bee-GM plant interactions

Few experiments have been conducted to assess the behavior of bee populations on GM plants on a large scale, most probably because of the rather drastic regulatory conditions imposed of the production of precommercialized GM plants in the field. However, some observations of bees exposed to transformed plants have been reported. 

Studies on isolated plants set in indoor or outdoor cages 

Type of resistance Genotype Name Nectar volume Sugar concentration Ref 

To complete this study, herbicide residues and the presence of recombinant proteins have to be analyzed. 

Few studies have been carried out on a large scale to investigate the environmental impact of GM plants. Herbicide-resistant oilseed rape plants have been evaluated mainly to assess the gene flows within species or to weed species closely related to oilseed rape [8, 9]. Regarding the pollinating entomofauna only two studies have been achieved recently. 

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