Prospects for using transgenic resistance to insects in crop improvement

By H. Sharma, K. Sharma, N. Seetharama, Rodomiro Ortiz. 2000

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Subfields: Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Biotechnology

1. H. Sharma
2. J. Crouch
3. K. Sharma
4. P. Jauhar

In Molecular Biology

1. H. Sharma
2. J. Crouch
3. P. Khurana
4. K. Sharma
5. P. Jauhar

In Plant Science

1. H. Sharma
2. C. T. Hash
3. S. Dwivedi
4. J. Crouch
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6. P. Jauhar

Citations in the corpus

• Wheat biotechnology: A minireview (2001, background): “…encoding highly potential anti-microbial peptides, defense-related proteins and enzymes for the production of anti-microbial compounds in crop plants, have greatly enhancing the possibility of engineering crop plants for resistance to pests and pathogens (Shah, 1997; Sharma et al. 2000).”
• Genetic Transformation of Crops for Insect Resistance: Potential and Limitations (2004, background): “Genes encoding δ-endotoxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) were cloned in the early 1980s (Schnepf and Whiteley, 1981), and genetically modified plants with resultant resistance to insects were developed by the mid-1990s (Hilder and Boulter, 1999; Sharma et al., 2000).”
• Molecular breeding of groundnut for enhanced productivity and food security in the semi- arid tropics: opportunities and challenges (2003, background): “G E N E T I C T R A N S F O R M A T I O N Sharma et al. (2000) reviewed the prospects for transgenic resistance and concluded that with the advent of genetic transformation techniques, it has become possible to clone and insert genes (δ-endotoxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), protease…”
• Applications of biotechnology for crop improvement: prospects and constraints (2002, background): “Such genes include protease inhibitors, chitinases, secondary plant metabolites, and lectins [22,23].”
• Influence of transgenic cotton on the relative abundance and damage by target and non-target insect pests under different protection regimes in India (2006, background): “Transgenic plants with desirable traits were developed in the mid-eighties (Barton et al., 1987; Vaeck et al., 1987), and since then, several crops with resistance to insects have been developed worldwide (Hilder and Boulter, 1999; Sharma et al., 2000, 2004 ), of which transgenic cottons with toxin”