Transgenic rice plants expressing the snowdrop lectin gene (gna) exhibit high-level resistance to the whitebacked planthopper (Sogatella furcifera)

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1399-1405

  Nagadhara, D ^a   Ramesh, S ^a   Pasalu, I C ^b   Kondala Rao, Y ^b   Sarma, N P ^b   Reddy, V D ^a   Rao, K V ^a  

^a OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b DIRECTORATE OF RICE RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIODIVERSITY; CROPS; ENZYMES; INSECTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

INSECTS; TRANSGENES; TRANSGENIC RICE PLANTS; WHITEBACKED PLANTHOPPER (WBPH);

GENES;

MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; PLANT LECTIN; SNOWDROP LECTIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GALANTHUS; GENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; GALANTHUS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INSECTS; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LECTINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NILAPARVATA LUGENS; SOGATELLA FURCIFERA;

EID: 11244271521     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-004-1750-5     Document Type: Article

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