Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

A Bacillus thuringiensis Cry protein controls soybean cyst nematode in transgenic soybean plants

  • Theodore W. Kahn,
  • Nicholas B. Duck,
  • Michael T. McCarville,
  • Laura Cooper Schouten,
  • Kathryn Schweri,
  • Jelena Zaitseva,
  • Julia Daum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23743-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Genetic resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is beginning to decline. Here, the authors report that soybean lines expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis protein Cy14Ab have significant levels of protection from SCN in both greenhouse and field trials.