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Published online 12 September 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010913-12
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Monarchs safe from Bt
GM plant pollen may be off the hook, but regulators are still feeling the heat.
Pollen from genetically modified (GM) corn plants that contain the insecticidal Bt toxin is not a significant danger to North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus), a suite of new research suggests.
Previous studies pointing to Bt toxin as the most tangible ecological threat so far identified from transgenic crops made it the cause célèbre of the anti-GM movement.
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