Successes and failures of transgenic bt crops: Global patterns of field-evolved resistance

Bt Resistance: Characterization and Strategies for GM Crops Producing Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-14

  Tabashnik, Bruce E ^a   Carrière, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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