The crystal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. thompsoni display a synergistic activity against the codling moth, Cydia pomonella

Current Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 200-204

  Rang, Cécile ^a   Lacey, Lawrence A ^b   Frutos, Roger ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INSECT REPELLENT;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CELL INCLUSION; CYDIA POMENELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT CONTROL; MOTH; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INCLUSION BODIES; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MOTHS;

ARACHNIDA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR THOMPSONI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYDIA; CYDIA POMONELLA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033961739     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849910040     Document Type: Article

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