RNAi-mediated crop protection against insects

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 393-400

  Price, Daniel R G ^a   Gatehouse, John A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA;

CROP PROTECTION; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA (DSRNA); ELSEVIER (CO); GENETIC RESEARCH; INSECT RESISTANT (IR) CROPS; NEW GENERATION; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS; RNA INTERFERENCE (RNAI); TARGET GENES; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

CROPS;

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROP PROTECTION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSECT RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PEST RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DROSOPHILA; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

HEXAPODA; NEMATODA;

EID: 45049083618     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.04.004     Document Type: Review

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