Bt crops: Predicting effects of escaped transgenes on the fitness of wild plants and their herbivores

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Issue		Environ. Biosafety Res. Volume 2, Number 4, October-December 2003


Page(s)		219 - 246
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/ebr:2003014
Published online		15 January 2004

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