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Suppressing a plant-parasitic nematode with fungivorous behavior by fungal transformation of a Bt cry gene

BACKGROUND: Pine wilt disease, caused by the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (PWN), is an important destructive disease of pine forests worldwide. In addition to behaving as a plant-parasitic nematode that feeds on epithelial cells of pines, this pest relies on fungal associates for com...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Chihang, Qin, Jialing, Wu, Choufei, Lei, Mengying, Wang, Yongjun, Zhang, Liqin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6055344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30037328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12934-018-0960-5