Agricultural biotechnology: Assessing the odds: The emergence of resistance to bt transgenic plants

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 816-817

  Roush, Richard T ^a   Shelton, Anthony M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; INSECT REPELLENT;

ANIMAL; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; INSECT; METABOLISM; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT REPELLENTS; INSECTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 0031228855     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0997-816     Document Type: Article

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