ARANTES, O. M. N.

BORGES, I. C.

CAPALBO, D. M. F.

GATTAZ, N. C.

LIMA, E. de S.

SCHNEIDER, D. R. S.

SILVEIRA, J. M. F. J. da

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28  - Activity of organisms in soil (microbial  dynamics and biodiversity), metabolic diversity (Biolog), rDNA analysisusing specific primers to:  mycorrhizal fungi, endophytic bacteria, nitrogen fixers bacteria and soil decomposers microorganisms. 2- Grain yield production: evaluating the damage caused by Helicoverpa zea and Spodoptera frugiperda (survey of larvae-bring them all to the lab) and other insect pets that might occur. For surveys, ear and leaves will be scored, and ears will be measured. All parasitoids will be identified (size and weight), weight of a 100 seeds and fungi occurring in the ears. 3- Cry toxin and non target organisms: the non target organisms Podisus nigrispinus, Chrisoperla externa, Orius insidiosus and Doru luteipes will be tested wth Cry1Ab, Cry1Ba, Cry1Ca and Cry1Da toxins, pure and activated with trypsin and proteinase K. Also it is included the use of Baculovirus based biopesticide in some refuge areas. Larvae of Spodotera frugiperda fed with Bt and non Bt toxins and provided to the predators. Our preliminary results showed that the number of S. frugiperda larvae parasitized was higher in MON810 and Bt 11 than in MON899034 and HX, and the most common parasitoids were: Eiphosoma viticolli, Chelonus sp. and Campoletis. Some nematodes occurred. All treatments showed some degree of parasitism, except those treatments that chemicals were sprayed and MON899034 and HX. No larvae survived. Damage in the ear of the corn was lower, on average, in DKB390-PRO and 2B710HX than in the MON810 and Bt11 treatments. Differences in number of larvae, parasitism, damage in the ear of the corn were also observed in the two different locations.  IOBC-O-26. PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND COMUNICATION ABOUT GM PLANTS: BRAZIL CASE OF STUDY UNDER UMBRELLA OF LAC BIOSAFETY PROJECT.  O.M.N. Arantes*,***, Deise M.F. Capalbo*, J.M.F.J. Silveira**, I.C. Borges**, D.R.S. Schneider*,****, N.C. Gattaz*, E.S. Lima* *Embrapa Environment, CP 69, Jaguariúna / SP. deise@cnpma.embrapa.br **State University of Campinas, Faculty of Economy, Campinas / SP;  ***Consultant  ****PhD fellowship.  The project Latin America: Multi-Country Capacity Building for Compliance with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety  LAC-Biosafety, is an initiative for cooperation among mega-biodiverse countries - Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru It is financially supported by the Global Environment Facility  GEF through the World Bank under general coordination of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture - CIAT. The objective of the project is to strengthen technical capacity in scientific knowledge generation and in communication, to support informed biosafety decision-making in compliance with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety  CPB. The communication component represents a new 29  challenge to be developed as it aims to reinforce the capacity in communication raising public awareness on biosafety in Latin America in general, and specifically in the four participating countries. The focus of this presentation will be on Brazil´s experience and challenges faced till now. There are currently 19 transgenic varieties growing in Brazil and the populations risk perception was analyzed by some authors such as Massarani and Moreira (2005), Guivant (2006) and Gonzales et al (2009a and b). Eventhough, the risk perception of the general public for the LAC Biosafety project is groundbreaking in the sense that it explicitly has to incorporate stakeholders consult in order to develop a sustainable strategic communication. In Brazil, the conceptual model adopted considered that the decision-making, the publics perception, the autonomy of decision and the subjective knowledge is the result of a combination of scientific information, objective knowledge and culture-such as beliefs and values. For the general public it was provided an online questionnaire (1442 respondents) to detect the general public perception of biosafety of GM plants and its regulations. And for the organized civil society/public institutions involved with decision making for the release and marketing of GM plants, the selected strategy was in-depth structured interviews. In this last case the aim was to identify: the perception about the proposed project activities; the reflections of such activities at country level; and provide the information needs detected, based on scientific results offered by the scientific team of the project. The results obtained are going to be presented at the IOBC/NTRS - SISA 2011 Joint Meeting. Emphasis will be applied in the strategy developed and the challenge that the project members face now to develop products to fulfill the information required and to raise the public perception, through a balanced and clear product for communication.  IOBC-O-27. LA ADOPCIÓN DEL CONTROL BIOLÓGICO POR PRODUCTORES: EXPERIENCIAS DE CUBA  L.L. Vazquez-Moreno  Instituto de Investigaciones de Sanidad Vegetal (INISAV) La Habana. Cuba. lvazquez@inisav.cu, llvazquezmoreno@yahoo.es  En Cuba el control biológico es tradicional y se ha desarrollado de manera exitosa en las etapas siguientes: 1. Control biológico clásico (desde 1929); 2. Control biológico por aumento de entomófagos (desde 1950); 3. Control biológico por aumento de bioplaguicidas (desde 1980); 4. Programas nacionales de control biológico (desde 1982); 5. Control biológico por conservación de enemigos naturales (desde 1998). Los principales agentes de control biológico que se producen y utilizan de forma aumentativa son: Bacillus thuringiensis, Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae, Lecanicillium lecanii, 

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