Cloning of two new cry genes from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. wuhanensis strain

Current Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 227-232

  Kuo, White Shang ^a   Lin, Jong Huon ^a   Tzeng, Ching Chou ^b   Kao, Shui Shang ^b   Chak, Kin Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR WUHANENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PIERIS RAPAE; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034020228     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849910046     Document Type: Article

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