Dominant resistance to Bt cotton and minor cross-resistance to Bt toxin Cry2Ab in cotton bollworm from China

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1222-1235

  Jin, Lin ^a   Wei, Yiyun ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Yang, Yihua ^a   Tabashnik, Bruce E ^b   Wu, Yidong ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominant resistance; Resistance evolution; Resistance management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889657721     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12099     Document Type: Article

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