Characterization of chimeric Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3 toxins

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 956-961

  Fang, Jun ^a   Xu, Xiaoli ^a   Wang, Ping ^c   Zhao, Jian Zhou ^c   Shelton, Anthony M ^c   Cheng, Jiaan ^a   Feng, Ming Guang ^b   Shen, Zhicheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; HELICOVERPA ZEA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

CLONING; INSECTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; TOXIC MATERIALS; TOXICITY;

BACTERIA;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN VIP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CLONE; COTTON; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOTH; PEST CONTROL; PEST RESISTANCE; PEST SPECIES; PROTEIN; TOXICITY; TOXIN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHIMERA; CROP PROTECTION; INSECT RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEST CONTROL; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIP3AC1 GENE; VIP3ACAA GENE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BOMBYX; INSECTICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPODOPTERA;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BOMBYX MORI; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HELICOVERPA ZEA; HEXAPODA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 33846909986     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02079-06     Document Type: Article

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