Herbicide-tolerant transgenic soybean over 15 years of cultivation: Pesticide use, weed resistance, and some economic issues. The case of the USA

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1302-1322

  Bonny, Sylvie ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Crop protection; Environment; Genetically modified organism (GMO); Glyphosate; Herbicide tolerant crop; Innovation; Pesticide; Sustainability; Technological change; Transgenic crop; Weed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861399200     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3091302     Document Type: Article

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