Transgenes for insect resistance reduce herbivory and enhance fecundity in advanced generations of crop-weed hybrids of rice

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 672-684

  Yang, Xiao ^a   Xia, Hui ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Wang, Feng ^b   Su, Jun ^b   Snow, Allison A ^c   Lu, Bao Rong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosafety; Biotechnology; Competition; Genetically engineered; Introgression; Red rice; Risk assessment; Weediness

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052583352     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00190.x     Document Type: Article

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