A challenge for the seed mixture refuge strategy in Bt maize: Impact of cross-pollination on an ear-feeding pest, corn earworm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Yang, Fei ^a   Kerns, David L ^b   Head, Graham P ^c   Leonard, B Rogers ^a   Levy, Ronnie ^d   Niu, Ying ^a   Huang, Fangneng ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University Agricultural Center   (United States)

^c MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^d Louisiana State University at Alexandria   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CRY1A 105; PROTEIN CRY1F; PROTEIN CRY2AB2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS POLLINATION; HELICOVERPA ZEA; HYBRID; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT RESISTANCE; MAIZE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); REFUGE IN THE BAG; RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT; TRANSGENIC CROP; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POLLINATION; PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

HELICOVERPA ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; DECISION MAKING; LEPIDOPTERA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLINATION; SEEDS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84914680434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112962     Document Type: Article

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