Sustainability of transgenic insecticidal cultivars: Integrating pest genetics and ecology

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 43, Issue , 1998, Pages 701-726

  Gould, Fred ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Host plant resistance; Population dynamics; Resistance management; Transgenic crops

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031938429     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.43.1.701     Document Type: Review

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