Tma12 binds to the chitin polymers that are a major component of insects’ exoskeletons. After isolating the gene that encodes Tma12, the authors created a transgenic cotton plant that expressed it.

Although the need for high protein expression is important for most proteins expressed in transgenic plants, it is especially important in insect-resistant plants where the 'High Dose' strategy is ...

With Bt crop acreage increasing worldwide, incorporating enhanced understanding of observed patterns of field-evolved resistance ... of transgenic crops. Since 1996, crop plants genetically ...

Under severe drought conditions, the transgenic plants triggered the death of their old leaves - a process known as senescence - to ... a great potential for using PYL9 to improve plant drought ...

Luthe and researchers at Mississippi State University have since developed several lines of corn resistant to multiple pests, using conventional plant breeding and insect-resistant strains of corn ...

But transgenic insect-resistant crops have turned this process around, Tabashnik says. These plants produce proteins from a widespread bacterium known as Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) that only harm ...

Now that they have developed a process ... by insects, bumblebees and pollen, and leaf litter composition, and found no evidence that transgenic American chestnuts present greater ecological risks ...

ISCA, a world leader in pheromone-based insect controls, has grown successive generations of the transgenic camelina plants and developed ... faces increasing pest resistance that renders ...