The cost of coexistence between Bt maize and Open-Pollinated maize varieties in lowland Coastal Kenya

AgBioForum

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 208-221

  Tumusiime, Emmanuel ^a   De Groote, Hugo ^b   Vitale, Jeffrey ^a   Adam, Brian ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CIMMYT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Agro ecological zone; Bt maize; Coexistence; Regulatory; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78649621893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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