Citation: Chapter 16. Fred Gould. 1996. Deploying pesticidal engineered crops in developing countries. Pages 264-293. In: GJ Persley. Biotechnology and Integrated Pest Management. Biotechnology in Agriculture No. 15, CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon UK OX10 8DE, 475 pages.

Keywords: general issues and concepts, genes for insect pest protection, taxonomy of some Bacillus thuringiensis toxins, possible evolutionary relationships between Bt toxins, potential for insect resistance to B thuringiensis toxins, slowing down B thuringiensis resistance in crop plants, resistance to B thuringiensis toxins in crop pests, models to predict rate of pest adaptation, general approaches for the use of B thuringiensis genes, strategies, sustainability of moderate, high and low expression of single B thuringiensis genes, simulation strategies, cropping systems and pests in developing countries, maize,

cotton, rice, leaffolder Cnaphalcrocis medinalis, yellow stemborer Scirpophaga incertulas, rice hispa Dicladispa armigera, crop breeding and seed production in these crops, contrasts and similarities, allocation of public resources, IRRI/Rockefeller rice project, potential for resistance, transformation and expression, field tests, development and distrubution