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A situation in which a local nontoxic refuge promotes pest resistance to toxic crops.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Mar 2007
Mohammed-Awel Jemal, Kopecky Karen, Ringland John
Abstract excerpt
In order to delay the development of pest resistance to genetically engineered insecticidal crop varieties, it is current practice to grow "refugees" of non-toxic plants close to insecticidal crops. We model such a toxic/nontoxic crop complex as an open system with a small stream of toxin-susceptible immigrants. We find that, for intermediate values of the dominance of a pest gene for resistance to the toxin, the...
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