Tissue specific expression of potent insecticidal, allium sativum leaf agglutinin (ASAL) in important pulse crop, chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to resist the phloem feeding aphis craccivora

Transgenic Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 529-544

  Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a,b   Sarkar, Anindya ^a,c   Mondal, Hossain Ali ^a   Das, Sampa ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allium sativum leaf lectin; Chickpea transformation; Cowpea aphid; Immunolocalization; Insect bioassay

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; ALLIUM SATIVUM; APHIDIDAE; APHIS CRACCIVORA; CICER ARIETINUM; HEXAPODA; RHIZOBIUM;

ASAI PROTEIN, ALLIUM SATIVUM; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHICKPEA; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; RHIZOBIUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; CICER; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 69449097784     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-009-9242-7     Document Type: Article

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