Enhancing integrated pest management in GM cotton systems using host plant resistance
Cotton has lost many ancestral defensive traits against key invertebrate pests. This is suggested by the levels of resistance to some pests found in wild cotton genotypes as well as in cultivated landraces and is a result of domestication and a long history of targeted breeding for yield and fibre q...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.00500/full |