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Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis linked with a cadherin transmembrane mutation affecting cellular trafficking in pink bollworm from China.
Insect biochemistry and molecular biology - 1 Mar 2018
Wang Ling, Ma Yuemin, Wan Peng, Liu Kaiyu, Xiao Yutao, Wang Jintao, Cong Shengbo, Xu Dong, Wu Kongming, Fabrick Jeffrey A, Li Xianchun, Tabashnik Bruce E
Abstract excerpt
Evolution of pest resistance reduces the efficacy of insecticidal proteins from the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) used widely in sprays and transgenic crops. In some previously studied strains of three major lepidopteran pests, resistance to Bt toxin Cry1Ac is associated with mutations disrupting the extracellular or cytoplasmic domains of cadherin proteins that bind Cry1Ac in the midgut of...
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