Biological activity and field efficacy of a genetically modified Helicoverpa armigera single-nucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus expressing an insect-selective toxin from a chimeric promoter

Biological Control

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 124-137

  Sun, Xiulian ^a,b   Wang, Hualin ^a,c   Sun, Xincheng ^a   Chen, Xinwen ^a   Peng, Chaomei ^d   Pan, Dengming ^e   Jehle, Johannes A ^c   Van Der Werf, Wopke ^b   Vlak, Just M ^b   Hu, Zhihong ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Rheinischen Friedrich Wilhelms U   (Germany)

^d Inst Contr Mgmt Agrochemicals H   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

AaIT; Cotton bollworm; Field efficacy; HaSNPV; p6.9 promoter; Recombinant baculovirus

Indexed keywords

CYPOVIRUS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HELICOVERPA; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HELICOVERPA ZEA; INSECTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SCORPIONES; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0346403371     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-9644(03)00117-8     Document Type: Article

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