Improved plant protective efficacy of a baculovirus using an early promoter to drive insect-specific neurotoxin expression

Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-20

  Tuan, Shu Jen ^a,b   Hou, Roger F ^c   Kao, Suey Sheng ^a   Lee, Chi Fen ^a   Chao, Yu Chan ^b  

^a Taiwan Agric Chem Toxic S   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AcMNPV; Autographa californica multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus; Baculovirus; Cabbage; Depressant neurotoxin; Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus; LqhIT 2; Plant protection; Recombinant virus; Scorpion toxin; Trichoplusia ni

Indexed keywords

AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYPOVIRUS; INSECTA; LEIURUS; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS HEBRAEUS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SCORPIONES; TRICHOPLUSIA NI; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 13944257070     PISSN: 00068063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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