Gene silencing in Tribolium castaneum as a tool for the targeted identification of candidate RNAi targets in crop pests

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Knorr, Eileen ^a   Fishilevich, Elane ^b   Tenbusch, Linda ^a   Frey, Meghan L F ^b   Rangasamy, Murugesan ^b   Billion, Andre ^a   Worden, Sarah E ^b   Gandra, Premchand ^b   Arora, Kanika ^b   Lo, Wendy ^b   Schulenberg, Greg ^b   Valverde Garcia, Pablo ^b   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a,c   Narva, Kenneth E ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENE; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSGENES; TRIBOLIUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85041624883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20416-y     Document Type: Article

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