Refuge Strategies for Managing Pest Resistance in Transgenic Agriculture |
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Authors: | Ramanan Laxminarayan R David Simpson |
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Institution: | (1) Resources for the Future, 1616 P. Street NW, Washington DC, 20036, USA |
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Abstract: | When the application of pesticides placesselective evolutionary pressure on pestpopulations it can be useful to plant refugeareas:
crop areas intended to encourage thebreeding of pests susceptible to the pesticide. Renewed interest in refuge areas has arisenwith
recent advances in biotechnology andgenetically modified (GM) crops. This paperuses a simple model of evolution of pestpopulation
and pest resistance to characterizethe socially optimal refuge strategy to managepest resistance. We show both that theestablishment
of refuge areas might best bedelayed until resistance becomes an importantconcern, and that the use of refuge areas inthe
long-run use will not be optimal if thefitness cost of resistance does not exceed thediscount rate. |
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Keywords: | biotechnology optimal control pest resistance |
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