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A leaf-section bioassay for evaluating rice stem borer resistance in transgenic rice containing a synthetic cry1Ab gene from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

G.-Y. Ye*
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310029, China
Q.-Y. Shu
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310029, China
H.-R. Cui
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310029, China
C. Hu
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310029, China
M.-W. Gao
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310029, China
Y.-W. Xia
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310029, China
X. Cheng
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, 40 Marie Curie Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
I. Altosaar
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, 40 Marie Curie Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
*
*Fax: +0086-0571-6049815 E-mail: chu@zjuem.zju.edu.cn

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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