Simulated sunlight-UV sensitivity of engineered juvenile hormone esterase and scorpion toxin recombinants of the nuclear polyhedrosis virus of Autographa californica

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-152

  Ignoffo, C M ^a   Garcia, C ^a   Bonning, B C ^b   Herman, R ^c   Hammock, B D ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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