Insect Tolerant Transgenic Tomato Plants

David A. Fischhoff^1, *, Katherine S. Bowdish^1, ‡, Frederick J. Perlak¹, Pamela G. Marrone¹, Sheila M. McCormick^1, , Jeanne G. Niedermeyer¹, Duff A. Dean¹, Kuniko Kusano-Kretzmer¹, Ernest J. Mayer¹, Dean E. Rochester¹, Stephen G. Rogers¹ & Robert T. Fraley¹

  ¹Monsanto Co., 700 Chesterfield Village Parkway, St. Louis, MO 63198.

  ^*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

  ^‡Present address: Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA.

  Present address: Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS, Albany, CA.

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