Dynamically optimal strategies for managing resistance to genetically modified crops

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 915-926

  Qiao, Fangbin ^a   Wilen, James ^b   Rozelle, Scott ^c  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Bt cotton; Refuge; Refugia; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROP; ECONOMICS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LEPIDOPTERA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 46849109112     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493(2008)101[915:DOSFMR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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