A plant factory for moth pheromone production

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ding, Bao Jian ^a   Hofvander, Per ^b   Wang, Hong Lei ^a   Durrett, Timothy P ^c   Stymne, Sten ^b   Löfstedt, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ALCOHOL; SEX PHEROMONE; 11-HEXADECENAL; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ALDEHYDE; INSECT PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; HAZARDOUS WASTE; MOTH; PEST SPECIES; PHEROMONE; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HAZARDOUS WASTE; MALE; MOTH; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; PLANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; VISION; YPONOMEUTA EVONYMELLA; YPONOMEUTA PADELLA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO;

ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOTHS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO;

EID: 84896881265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4353     Document Type: Article

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