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Breathing new life into insect-resistant plants

Expressing insecticidal proteins from sources other than Bacillus thuringiensis in crop plants should reduce the likelihood for development of insect resistance to toxins.

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Figure 1: Reducing the rate of insect resistance development.

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Moar, W. Breathing new life into insect-resistant plants. Nat Biotechnol 21, 1152–1154 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1003-1152

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