Highly toxic and broad-spectrum insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis engineered by using the transposon Tn917 and protoplast fusion

Current Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 112-119

  Yu, Jianxiu ^a   Pang, Yi ^a   Tang, Mujin ^a   Xie, Ruiyu ^a   Tan, Le ^a   Zeng, Shaoling ^a   Yuan, Meijin ^a   Liu, Jingyu ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CULEX PIPIENS; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE TARGETING; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CULEX; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDOTOXINS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; SPODOPTERA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS; LEPIDOPTERA; POSIBACTERIA; SPODOPTERA LITURA;

EID: 0034958966     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002840010271     Document Type: Article

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