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- Title
Engineering insect-free cereals.
- Authors
Hogenhout, Saskia A; Zipfel, Cyril
- Abstract
The article reports on the cloning of a rice genetic locus that confers broad-spectrum resistance to brown planthopper (BPH) and at least one other planthopper species, the white back planthopper. The locus is introduced into plant genomes that is likely to provide an effective means of fighting insect pests of rice and of other cereals such as maize. BPH damage is controlled through breeding and the application of vast amounts of chemical pesticides in terms of modern rice agriculture.
- Subjects
LOCUS in plant genetics; LOCUS (Genetics); NILAPARVATA lugens; PLANT genomes; PESTICIDES; RICE disease &; pest resistance
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 3, p262
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt.3162