Constitutive expression of a cowpea trypsin inhibitor gene, CpTi, in transgenic rice plants confers resistance to two major rice insect pests

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-173

  Xu, Deping ^a,b   Xue, Qingzhong ^c   McElroy, David ^a,d   Mawal, Yogesh ^a,e   Hilder, Vaughan A ^f   Wu, Ray ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^f Axis Genetics plc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cowpea trypsin inhibitor; Insect resistance; Proteinase inhibitor; Stem borer; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION;

CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSIONS; COWPEA TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; GENES ENCODING; INSECT RESISTANCE; INSECTS PESTS; PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; STEM BORER; TRANSGENIC RICE; TRANSGENIC RICE PLANTS; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

GENE ENCODING;

EID: 0001552465     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00441431     Document Type: Article

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