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The first crop plant genetically engineered to release an insect pheromone for defence

Insect pheromones offer potential for managing pests of crop plants. Volatility and instability are problems for deployment in agriculture but could be solved by expressing genes for the biosynthesis of pheromones in the crop plants. This has now been achieved by genetically engineering a hexaploid...

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Autores principales: Bruce, Toby J.A., Aradottir, Gudbjorg I., Smart, Lesley E., Martin, Janet L., Caulfield, John C., Doherty, Angela, Sparks, Caroline A., Woodcock, Christine M., Birkett, Michael A., Napier, Johnathan A., Jones, Huw D., Pickett, John A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26108150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11183