Could Bt transgenic crops have nutritionally favourable effects on resistant insects?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 167-169

  Sayyed, Ali H ^a   Cerda, Hugo ^a,b   Wright, Denis J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Universidad Nacional Experimental Simon Rodriuez   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Fitness; Insect nutrition; Resistance; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; INSECT; MOTH; NUTRITION; PEST RESISTANCE; TOXIN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA;

EID: 0037364709     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00424.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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