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Resistance found in GM refuges
Email: Cathy Holding - cathyholding@aol.com News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040511-01
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US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines on the planting of non-transgenic “refuges”—areas in which a non-transgenic crop is grown to allow survival of susceptible insects—adjacent to genetically modified (GM) crops could actually increase the risk of pests acquiring resistance to the GM crops, according to a report published in the May 10 online edition of PNAS.
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