Transgenic plants over-expressing insect-specific microRNA acquire insecticidal activity against Helicoverpa armigera: an alternative to Bt-toxin technology

Transgenic Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 791-801

  Agrawal, Aditi ^a   Rajamani, Vijayalakshmi ^a   Reddy, Vanga Siva ^a   Mukherjee, Sunil Kumar ^b   Bhatnagar, Raj K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Artificial miRNA; Insect bioassay; Insecticidal; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; MICRORNA;

ANIMAL; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOTH; PATHOGENICITY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; INSECTS; LARVA; MICRORNAS; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TOBACCO;

EID: 84941933278     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: 15739368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-015-9880-x     Document Type: Article

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