Analysis of chloroplast transformed tobacco plants with cry1Ia5 under rice psbA transcriptional elements reveal high level expression of Bt toxin without imposing yield penalty and stable inheritance of transplastome

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 259-269

  Reddy, Vanga Siva ^a   Leelavathi, Sadhu ^a   Selvapandiyan, Angamuthu ^b   Raman, Rajagopal ^a   Giovanni, Ferraiolo ^c   Shukla, Vijaya ^a   Bhatnagar, Raj Kamal ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b CBER   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Chloroplast transformation; Cry1Ia5; Homologus recombination; Insect resistance; Maternal inheritance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BT TOXIN; CHLOROPLAST TRANSFORMATION; CRY1IA5; FOREIGN GENES; HIGH LEVEL EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGUS RECOMBINATION; INSECT RESISTANCE; MATERNAL INHERITANCE; TOBACCO PLANTS;

PROTEINS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; HELICOVERPA; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; INSECTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0036384632     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020357729437     Document Type: Article

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