Recent developments and future prospects in insect pest control in transgenic crops

P Christou, T Capell, A Kohli, JA Gatehouse… - Trends in plant …, 2006 - cell.com
The adoption of insect-resistant transgenic crops has been increasing annually at double-
digit rates since the commercial release of first-generation maize and cotton expressing a …

Transgenic plants for insect pest control: a forward looking scientific perspective

N Ferry, MG Edwards, J Gatehouse, T Capell… - Transgenic …, 2006 - Springer
One of the first successes of plant biotechnology has been the creation and
commercialisation of transgenic crops exhibiting resistance to major insect pests. First …

Diversity of Bacillus thuringiensis crystal toxins and mechanism of action

MJ Adang, N Crickmore, JL Jurat-Fuentes - Advances in insect physiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Parasporal crystals produced by Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria are the main virulence
factors underlying Bt toxicity to insects. Parasporal crystals are composed primarily of Cry …

Bt toxin modification for enhanced efficacy

BR Deist, MA Rausch, MT Fernandez-Luna, MJ Adang… - Toxins, 2014 - mdpi.com
Insect-specific toxins derived from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) provide a valuable resource for
pest suppression. Here we review the different strategies that have been employed to …

Lepidopteran-Active Variable-Region Sequence Imparts Coleopteran Activity in eCry3.1Ab, an Engineered Bacillus thuringiensis Hybrid Insecticidal Protein

FS Walters, CM deFontes, H Hart… - Applied and …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A unique, coleopteran-active protein, termed eCry3. 1Ab, was generated
following variable-region exchange of a Bacillus thuringiensis lepidopteran-active protein …

Plant domestication and resistance to herbivory

B Chaudhary - International journal of plant genomics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Transformation of wild species into elite cultivars through “domestication” entails
evolutionary responses in which plant populations adapt to selection. Domestication is a …

Metabolomics of transgenic maize combining Fourier transform-ion cyclotron resonance-mass spectrometry, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry and …

C Leon, I Rodriguez-Meizoso, M Lucio… - … of Chromatography A, 2009 - Elsevier
In this work, the potential of combining capillary electrophoresis-time-of-flight-mass
spectrometry (CE-TOF-MS) and Fourier transform-ion cyclotron resonance-mass …

Making 3D-cry toxin mutants: Much more than a tool of understanding toxins mechanism of action

S Vílchez - Toxins, 2020 - mdpi.com
3D-Cry toxins, produced by the entomopathogenic bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, have
been extensively mutated in order to elucidate their elegant and complex mechanism of …

Expression of hybrid fusion protein (Cry1Ac:: ASAL) in transgenic rice plants imparts resistance against multiple insect pests

D Boddupally, S Tamirisa, SR Gundra, DR Vudem… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
To evolve rice varieties resistant to different groups of insect pests a fusion gene, comprising
DI and DII domains of Bt Cry1Ac and carbohydrate binding domain of garlic lectin (ASAL) …

Bacillus thuringiensis Applications in Agriculture

Z George, N Crickmore - Bacillus thuringiensis biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) and its insecticidal toxins have been used in agronomical pest
control for decades. The mechanism of action of Bt toxins on insect pest involves specific …