Transgenic plants protected from insect attack

Autor: Vaeck, Mark, Reynaerts, Arlette, Höfte, Herman, Jansens, Stefan, De Beuckeleer, Marc, Dean, Caroline, Zabeau, Marc, Montagu, Marc Van, Leemans, Jan
Zdroj: Nature; July 1987, Vol. 328 Issue: 6125 p33-37, 5p
Abstrakt: The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis produces proteins which are specifically toxic to a variety of insect species. Modified genes have been derived from bt2, a toxin gene cloned from one Bacillus strain. Transgenic tobacco plants expressing these genes synthesize insecticidal proteins which protect them from feeding damage by larvae of the tobacco hornworm.
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