Use of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins for control of the cotton pest Earias insulana (Boisd.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 437-442

  Ibargutxi, María A ^a   Estela, Anna ^b   Ferré, Juan ^b   Caballero, Primitivo ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; PROTEINS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ANAEROBIC MICROBIAL SUBCULTURES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; E. INSULANA; LEPIDOPTERAN-SPECIFIC CRY PROTEINS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CRY1AB TOXIN; CRY1AC TOXIN; CRY1BA TOXIN; CRY1CA TOXIN; CRY1DA TOXIN; CRY1EA TOXIN; CRY1FA TOXIN; CRY1IA TOXIN; CRY1JA TOXIN; CRY2AA TOXIN; CRY2AB TOXIN; CRY9CA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

LARVA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PROTEIN; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BINDING SITE; BIOTINYLATION; BRUSH BORDER; CROSS RESISTANCE; EARIAS INSULANA; GROWTH INHIBITION; LC 50; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; ANIMAL; BINDING COMPETITION; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COTTON; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROVILLUS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EARIAS INSULANA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HELICOVERPA ZEA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; ENDOTOXINS; GOSSYPIUM; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MICROVILLI; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 33644860856     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.437-442.2006     Document Type: Article

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