Unusually high frequency of genes encoding vegetative insecticidal proteins in an Australian Bacillus thuringiensis collection

Current Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 195-199

  Beard, Cheryl E ^a   Court, Leon ^a   Boets, Annemie ^b   Mourant, Roslyn ^b   Van Rie, Jeroen ^b   Akhurst, Raymond J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Bayer sa nv Belgium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIP3BB2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VEGETATIVE STAGE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; INSECT CONTROL; MOTHS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA;

EID: 48349127724     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9173-1     Document Type: Article

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