Specific sequence modifications of a cry3B endotoxin gene result in high levels of expression and insect resistance

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 485-496

  Iannacone, Rina ^a   Grieco, Pasquale D ^a   Cellini, Francesco ^a  

^a Metapontum Agrobios ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Coleoptera; Eggplant; Gene expression; Insect resistance; Solanum integrifolium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VEGETABLES;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; MELONGENA; SOLANUM INTEGRIFOLIUM; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 0031170806     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005876323398     Document Type: Article

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