Susceptibility of Anthonomus grandis (cotton boll weevil) and Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm) to a Cry1Ia-type toxin from a Brazilian Bacillus thuringiensis strain

Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 773-782

  Grossi de Sa, Maria Fatima ^a,b   De Magalhães, Mariana Quezado ^a,b   Silva, Marilia Santos ^b   Silva, Shirley Margareth Buffon ^a   Dias, Simoni Campos ^a,b   Nakasu, Erich Yukio Tempel ^b   Brunetta, Patrícia Sanglard Felipe ^a,b   Oliveira, Gustavo Ramos ^b   Neto, Osmundo Brilhante De Oliveira ^a,b,c   De Oliveira, Raquel Sampaio ^a,b   Soares, Luís Henrique Barros ^b   Ayub, Marco Antônio Zachia ^b   Siqueira, Herbert Alvaro Abreu ^a   Figueira, Edson L Z ^a  

^a EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIEURO University Center   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthonomus grandis; Bt toxin; Coleoptera; Cotton; Cry1Ia; E. coli expression; Lepidoptera; Spodoptera frugiperda

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS; AVES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA; REPTILIA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

EID: 35348875436     PISSN: 12258687     EISSN: 02191024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2007.40.5.773     Document Type: Article

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