Insecticidal toxins from the bacterium photorhabdus luminescens

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5372, 1998, Pages 2129-2132

  Bowen, David ^a   Rocheleau, Thomas A ^a   Blackburn, Michael ^a   Andreev, Olga ^a   Golubeva, Elena ^a   Bhartia, Rohit ^a   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; INSECT CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOTOXINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE DELETION; INSECTICIDES; MANDUCA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032568883     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5372.2129     Document Type: Review

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35. We thank all at Dow AgroSciences Biotechnology for their encouragement and support of this project. Supported by Hatch funds, The Applied Research and Technology Fund, and The Industrial and Economic Development Fund, all administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and by DowAgrosciences.