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creators_name: Sharma, H C
creators_name: Ortiz, R
icrisatcreators_name: Sharma, H C
icrisatcreators_name: Ortiz, R
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Transgenics, pest management, and the environment
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Pest management, Transgenic crops
agrotags: <b>Agrotags</b>     - transgenics | planting | crops | pests | genes | toxins | biological phenomena | enzymes | transgenic plants | proteins <br><b>Fishtags</b>    - NOT-AVAILABLE<br><b>Geopoliticaltags</b> - usa | mexico | colorado | washington | china | france | act | texas | maine
abstract: 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
date: 2000
date_type: published
publication: Current Science
volume: 79
number: 4
publisher: Indian Academy of Sciences
pagerange: 421-437
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0011-3891
official_url: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252000/sharma.pdf
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citation:   Sharma, H C and Ortiz, R  (2000) Transgenics, pest management, and the environment.  Current Science, 79 (4).  pp. 421-437.  ISSN 0011-3891     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/4/1/sharma.pdf