Spider venom toxin protects plants from insect attack

Transgenic Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 349-357

  Khan, Sher Afzal ^a   Zafar, Yusuf ^a   Briddon, Rob W ^a   Malik, Kauser Abdulla ^a   Mukhtar, Zahid ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Hadronyche versuta; Insect; Resistance; Spider; Toxin; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

OMEGA AGATOXIN I; OMEGA-AGATOXIN I; SPIDER VENOM; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPIDER; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS; TOBACCO; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSGENES;

ARANEAE; DIPLURIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HADRONYCHE VERSUTA; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SPODOPTERA LITTORALIS;

EID: 33745122972     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-006-0007-2     Document Type: Article

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