Field release and environmental fate of a transgenic entomopathogenic nematode

Biological Control

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 75-80

  Gaugler, Randy ^a   Wilson, Michael ^a   Shearer, Peter ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic engineering; Heat shock protein; Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Nematode; Nematode persistence; Regulations; Risk assessment; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; POACEAE;

EID: 0031171733     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1997.0538     Document Type: Review

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