Expression of snowdrop lectin (GNA) in transgenic rice plants confers resistance to rice brown planthopper

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 469-477

  Rao, K V ^a,d   Rathore, Keerti S ^a,e   Hodges, Thomas K ^a   Fu, X ^b   Stoger, Eva ^b   Sudhakar, D ^b   Williams, Sarah ^b   Christou, Paul ^b   Bharathi, M ^c   Bown, David P ^c   Powell, Kevin S ^c   Spence, Jacqui ^c   Gatehouse, Angharad M R ^c   Gatehouse, John A ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; FERTILIZATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; LECTIN; PLANT GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUCROSE SYNTHASE; TOXICITY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UBIQUITIN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; DNA, PLANT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GALANTHUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; INSECTS; LECTINS; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LECTINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0032143501     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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