Yield benefit and underlying cost of insect-resistance transgenic rice: Implication in breeding and deploying transgenic crops

Field Crops Research

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-220

  Xia, Hui ^a   Chen, Liangyan ^a,c   Wang, Feng ^b   Lu, Bao Rong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genetically modified crop; Insect resistance; Oryza sativa; Transgene; Transgenic breeding

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROP YIELD; CRYPSIS; FITNESS; PEST RESISTANCE; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; YIELD RESPONSE;

HEXAPODA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 77954952741     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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