Suppression of Leaf Feeding and Oviposition of Phytophagous Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) by Chitinase Gene-transformed Phylloplane Bacteria and Their Specific Bacteriophages Entrapped in Alginate Gel Beads

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 555-563

  Otsu, Yasunari ^a   Mori, Hirofumi ^a   Komuta, Kenji ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^a   Nogawa, Souta ^a   Matsuda, Yoshinori ^a   Nonomura, Teruo ^a   Sakuratani, Yasuyuki ^a   Tosa, Yukio ^a,b   Mayama, Shigeyuki ^a,b   Toyoda, Hideyoshi ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alginate beads; Bacteriophages; Chitinase SH1; Enterobacter cloacae; Epilachna vigintioctopunctata

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPILACHNA; EPILACHNA VIGINTIOCTOPUNCTATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; KURTHIA; KURTHIA ZOPFII; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 10744227010     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/96.3.555     Document Type: Article

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