Effects of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis cotton on insecticide use, heliothine counts, plant damage, and cotton yield: A meta-analysis, 1996-2015

• Daniel Fleming ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: dfleming@provivi.com (DF); fmusser@entomology.msstate.edu (FM)

  Current address: Provivi, Inc. Santa Monica, CA, United States of America

  Affiliation Mississippi State University, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4637-1822

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• Fred Musser ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dfleming@provivi.com (DF); fmusser@entomology.msstate.edu (FM)

  Affiliation Mississippi State University, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America

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• Dominic Reisig ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation North Carolina State University, Vernon G. James Research and Extension Center, Plymouth, NC, United States of America

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• Jeremy Greene ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clemson University, Edisto Research and Education Center, Blackville, SC, United States of America

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• Sally Taylor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Virginia Tech, Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Suffolk, VA, United States of America

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• Megha Parajulee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas A&M University, AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Lubbock, TX, United States of America

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• Gus Lorenz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, Lonoke Extension Center, Lonoke, AR, United States of America

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• Angus Catchot ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Mississippi State University, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America

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• Jeffrey Gore ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Mississippi State University Delta Research and Extension Center, Stoneville, MS, United States of America

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• David Kerns ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Texas A&M University Department of Entomology, College Station, TX, United States of America

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• Scott Stewart ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominic Reisig, Jeremy Greene, Sally Taylor, Megha Parajulee, Gus Lorenz, Angus Catchot, Jeffrey Gore, David Kerns, Scott Stewart

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation The University of Tennessee, West Tennessee Research and Education Center, Jackson, TN, United States of America

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• Deborah Boykin,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, James Whitten Delta States Research Center, Stoneville, MS, United States of America

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• Michael Caprio,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mississippi State University, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America

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• Nathan Little

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, Southern Insect Management Research Unit, Stoneville, MS, United States of America

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