Field tests on managing resistance to Bt-engineered plants

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 339-342

  Shelton, Anthony M ^a   Tang, Juliet D ^a   Roush, Richard T ^b,c   Metz, Timothy D ^b,d   Earle, Elizabeth D ^b  

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

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Insecta; Plutella xylostella; Resistance; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LARVA; MODEL; MORTALITY; MOTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRASSICA; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MOTHS; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TIME FACTORS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA;

EID: 0034099252     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73804     Document Type: Article

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