Construction of occluded recombinant baculoviruses containing the full-length cry1Ab and cry1Ac genes from Bacillus thuringiensis

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 763-769

  Ribeiro, B M ^a,b   Crook, N E ^a  

^a Horticulture Research International   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AcNPV; Bacillus thuringiensis cry 1A; Baculovirus; Heliothis virescens; Pieris brassicae

Indexed keywords

AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEXAPODA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

DNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACULOVIRUS; BIOASSAY; GENE; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

EID: 0031843004     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X1998000600006     Document Type: Article

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