Evaluating the insecticidal genes and their expressed products in bacillus thuringiensis strains by combining PCR with mass spectrometry

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 6811-6813

  Sun, Yunjun ^a   Fu, Zujiao ^a   Ding, Xuezhi ^a   Xia, Liqiu ^a  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; COSMIC RAYS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GENES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRAIN;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; COMPLEMENTARY METHODS; CRY GENES; EVALUATING; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN LEVELS; PROTOXINS; THURINGIENSIS;

HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

PROTOXIN;

BACTERIUM; COMPLEMENTARITY; DETECTION METHOD; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECTICIDE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

EID: 55049138298     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01085-08     Document Type: Article

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