Insect resistance of transgenic tobacco expressing an insect chitinase gene
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Transgenic Research
- Vol. 7 (2) , 77-84
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1008820507262
Abstract
Chitinase expression in the insect gut normally occurs only during moulting, where the chitin of the peritrophic membrane is presumably degraded. Thus, insects feeding on plants that constitutively...Keywords
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