Risk assessment of genetically engineered crops: Fitness effects of virus-resistance transgenes in wild Cucurbita pepo

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1091-1101

  Laughlin, Karen D ^a   Power, Alison G ^a   Snow, Allison A ^b   Spencer, Lawrence J ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional crop; Crop wild hybridization; Cucurbita pepo; Fitness; Gene flow; Genetic engineering; Introgression; Plant virus; Risk assessment; Transgenic plants; Virus resistance; Zucchini yellow mosaic virus

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CULTIVAR; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; INOCULATION; MONOCOTYLEDON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CROP; FERTILITY; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INNATE IMMUNITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POTYVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SQUASH; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CUCURBITA; FERTILITY; GENE FLOW; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POTYVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENES;

ARKANSAS; ITHACA [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CUCURBITA PEPO; ZUCCHINI YELLOW MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 68149091839     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0105.1     Document Type: Article

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