Large-scale test of the natural refuge strategy for delaying insect resistance to transgenic Bt crops

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 169-174

  Jin, Lin ^a   Zhang, Haonan ^a   Lu, Yanhui ^b   Yang, Yihua ^a   Wu, Kongming ^b   Tabashnik, Bruce E ^c   Wu, Yidong ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOASSAY; METABOLITES; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; EQUIVALENT AREAS; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; INSECT RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDAL PROTEIN; LARGE SCALE TESTS; NORTHERN CHINA; TRANSGENIC COTTON;

COTTON;

CRY1AC TOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; FIELD STUDY; GOSSYPIUM; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; INHERITANCE; INSECT RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LEPIDOPTERA; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDOTOXINS; GOSSYPIUM; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTS; LEPIDOPTERA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 84923352429     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3100     Document Type: Article

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