Characterization of a 46 kDa insect chitinase from transgenic tobacco

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1055-1064

  Wang, Xiaorong ^a   Ding, Xiongfei ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Bhuvana ^a   Morgan, Thomas D ^b   Johnson, Lowell ^a   White, Frank F ^a   Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam ^a   Kramer, Karl J ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Chitinase; Gene; Manduca sexta; Merchant grain beetle; Oryzae philus mercator; Tobacco; Tobacco hornworm; Transformation

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0030266331     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(96)00056-2     Document Type: Article

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