relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/4/
title: Transgenics, pest management, and the environment
creator: Sharma, H C
creator: Ortiz, R
subject: Information Science
description: Genetic engineering of crop plants to confer resistance  to insect pests offers an environmental friendly  method of crop protection. Impressive results have  been obtained with the expression of Bacillus thuringiensis  (Bt) and other toxin genes in several crops.  However, both exotic and plant-derived genes have  some performance limitations, and there have been  some failures in insect control through transgenic  crops. The production and deployment of transgenic  crops for pest control need to address the issues related  to impact of the transgenic crops on the insect  pests, ecological cost of resistance development,  effects on the nontarget organisms, availability and  distribution of the alternate host plants, and the  potential for introgression of genes into the wild  relatives of crops. There is a need for a more responsible  public debate and better presentation of the  benefits for a rational deployment of the geneticallytransformed  plants for sustainable crop production
publisher: Indian Academy of Sciences
date: 2000
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/4/1/sharma.pdf
identifier:   Sharma, H C and Ortiz, R  (2000) Transgenics, pest management, and the environment.  Current Science, 79 (4).  pp. 421-437.  ISSN 0011-3891     
relation: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252000/sharma.pdf