Transgenic plants protected from insect attack
Abstract
The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis produces proteins which are specifically toxic to a variety of insect species. Modified genes have been derived from bt2, a toxin gene cloned from one Bacillus strain. Transgenic tobacco plants expressing these genes synthesize insecticidal proteins which protect them from feeding damage by larvae of the tobacco hornworm.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- July 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1038/328033a0
- Bibcode:
- 1987Natur.328...33V