Tobacco plants expressing the Cry1AbMod toxin suppress tolerance to Cry1Ab toxin of Manduca sexta cadherin-silenced larvae

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 513-519

  Porta, Helena ^a   Jiménez, Gladys ^a   Cordoba, Elizabeth ^a   León, Patricia ^a   Soberón, Mario ^a   Bravo, Alejandra ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Cadherin; Cry toxins; Manduca sexta; RNAi; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADHERIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; INSECTICIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CADHERINS; ENDOTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MANDUCA; MUTATION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PECTINOPHORA GOSSYPIELLA;

EID: 79959213377     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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