Production of transgenic deepwater indica rice plants expressing a synthetic Bacillus thuringiensis cryIA(b) gene with enhanced resistance to yellow stem borer

Plant Science

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-30

  Firoz Alam, Mohammad ^a   Datta, Karabi ^a   Abrigo, Editha ^a   Vasquez, Alelie ^a   Senadhira, Dharmawansa ^a   Datta, Swapan K ^a  

^a Plant Breeding   (Philippines)

Author keywords

CryIA(b) gene; Transgenic deepwater rice; Yellow stem borer resistance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RICE; TRANSGENE;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

EID: 0345676503     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(98)00053-3     Document Type: Article

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