Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

A transgenic approach for controlling Lygus in cotton

  • Anilkumar Gowda,
  • Timothy J. Rydel,
  • Andrew M. Wollacott,
  • Robert S. Brown,
  • Waseem Akbar,
  • Thomas L. Clark,
  • Stanislaw Flasinski,
  • Jeffrey R. Nageotte,
  • Andrew C. Read,
  • Xiaohong Shi,
  • Brent J. Werner,
  • Michael J. Pleau,
  • James A. Baum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12213
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Plant-feeding insects of the Lygus genus have emerged as a major pest effecting cotton crops in the USA. Here the authors optimize the insecticidal activity of a Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein and produce transgenic plants that are resistant to feeding damage by Lygusspecies.