Pyramiding Bt genes for increasing resistance of cotton to two major lepidopteran pests: Spodoptera litura and Heliothis armigera

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2717-2727

  Li, Lebin ^a   Zhu, Yi ^a   Jin, Shuangxia ^a   Zhang, Xianlong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cotton; Cry9C protein; ELISA; Insect bioassay; Spodoptera litura

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907711205     PISSN: 01375881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-014-1642-5     Document Type: Article

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