Genetic Engineering of Trees to Enhance Resistance to Insects

Abstract

Balances insect problems in forest setting with selection for reistant biotype evolution for genetically engineered trees. Suggests that risks are greater in large forested monocultures than seed orchards, rapid rotation systems and ornamentals. Mosaics will help, with spatial, inducible, tissue-specific, temproal or developmental. Resistance should be nontransferrable to progeny.