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Assessing the odds: The emergence of resistance to Bt transgenic plants

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  1. associate professor at the department of crop protection, Waite Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, 5064, South Australia

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  2. professor at the department of entomology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station/Cornell University, 416 Barton Laboratory, Geneva, New York, 14456

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