Use of Bt crops has led to: (review your class notes! Remember what Bt was for - was it a pesticide or an herbicide?) an increase in the use of glyphosate in agriculture, and a decrease in the use of other herbicides that do not have the corresponding genetically engineered seeds declining soil fertility and increased tillage severe biomagnification of the Bt toxin in higher trophic level organisms a decline in the use of some types of more harmful, synthetic pesticides in the US a decline in honeybee populations across the globe
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Therefore, the use of Bt crops would not directly affect the use of glyphosate, an herbicide, or cause a decrease in the use of other herbicides. Bt crops also do not directly cause declining soil fertility or increased tillage. Bt toxins are not known to Show more…
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