Success of the high-dose/refuge resistance management strategy after 15 years of Bt crop use in North America

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Huang, Fangneng ^a   Andow, David A ^b   Buschman, Lawrent L ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton; Diatraea grandiosella; Heliothis virescens; Insecticide resistance management; Lepidoptera; Maize; Ostrinia nubilalis; Pectinophora gossypiella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COTTON; CROP PEST; CULTIVAR; INSECT; INSECTICIDE; MAIZE; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; REFUGE; RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT; TOXIN; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRULENCE;

INDIA; NORTH AMERICA; PUERTO RICO; SOUTH AFRICA;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BUSSEOLA FUSCA; CRAMBIDAE; DIATRAEA GRANDIOSELLA; GELECHIIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NOCTUIDAE; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; PECTINOPHORA GOSSYPIELLA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79958859518     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2011.01138.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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