Strategies for transgenic nematode control in developed and developing world crops

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 251-256

  Atkinson, Howard J ^a   Lilley, Catherine J ^a   Urwin, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DIETARY PROTEINS; GENOMIC STUDIES; HIGH EFFICACY; MARKET ACCEPTANCE; NATURAL RESISTANCE; NEMATODE RESISTANCE; NOVEL PROTEINS; PLANT BREEDERS; PROFIT MARGIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; ROOT TISSUES; STAPLE CROPS; TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTER; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; TRANSGENICS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GENES; PESTICIDES; PROFITABILITY; RNA; TISSUE;

CROPS;

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

BIOSAFETY; CROP PROTECTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOOD SECURITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT PARASITIC PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; ROOT KNOT NEMATODE; TRANSGENIC CROP;

ANIMALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; IMMUNITY, INNATE; NEMATODA; PESTICIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE;

NEMATODA;

EID: 84859158652     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.09.004     Document Type: Review

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