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Molecular determinants for resistance to crop protection chemicals

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Molecular Biology in Crop Protection

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Crop protection chemicals play an important part in the production of high yielding quality food and fibre crops, and their failure can cause considerable losses. Biological material is seldom uniform, and wide variation in sensitivity to pesticides often exists in target populations of insects, pathogens and weeds. Rare resistant mutants favoured by selection increase in frequency so that chemical control is no longer effective. Resistance is a stable and heritable characteristic and although resistant mutants can often be generated and studied in the laboratory, their early and accurate detection in field populations is of major concern in practice.

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Hollomon, D.W., Butters, J.A. (1994). Molecular determinants for resistance to crop protection chemicals. In: Marshall, G., Walters, D. (eds) Molecular Biology in Crop Protection. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1248-2_4

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