Prospects for reducing fumonisin contamination of Maize through genetic modification

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2001, Pages 337-342

  Duvick, Jon ^a  

^a PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aflatoxin; Bacillus thuringiensis toxin; Chitinase; Corn earworm; Cry1Ab; Cry1Ac; European corn borer; Exophiala spinifera; Fumonisin; Fumonisin deaminase; Fumonisin esterase; Gene silencing; Quantitative trait loci; Rhinocladiella atrovirens; Trypsin inhibitor

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FUMONICIN; FUNGAL ENZYME; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CARCINOGENICITY; CHROMOSOME; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN; CROP; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEGRADATION; DETOXIFICATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDING; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM VERTICILLIOIDES; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOST; HYBRID; INFECTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INSECT; MAIZE; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; FUSARIUM VERTICILLIOIDES;

EID: 0035024790     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109s2337     Document Type: Article

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