Potato transformation with modified nucleotide sequences of the cry9aa2 gene improves resistance to potato tuber moth

Potato Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 367-378

  Jacobs, Jeanne M E ^a,b   Takla, Michael F G ^b   Docherty, Lisa C ^a   Frater, Christina M ^a   Markwick, Ngaire P ^a   Meiyalaghan, Sathiyamoorthy ^a,b   Conner, Anthony J ^a,b  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium transformation; Cry9Aa2 gene; Insect resistance; Lepidopteran resistance; Phthorimaea operculella; Solanum tuberosum; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHTHORIMAEA OPERCULELLA; RHIZOBIUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 77949773869     PISSN: 00143065     EISSN: 18714528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11540-009-9140-7     Document Type: Article

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