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Deployment of Transgenic Crops for Pest Management: Ecological Considerations and Their Biosafety to the Environment

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Title Deployment of Transgenic Crops for Pest Management: Ecological Considerations and Their Biosafety to the Environment
 
Creator Sharma, H C
 
Subject Entomology
 
Description Significant progress has been made over the past decades in
handling and introduction of exotic genes into plants, and has
provided opportunities to modify crops to increase yields, impart
resistance to biotic and abiotic stress factors, and improve nutrition.
Genes from bacteria such as Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) and B.
sphearicus have been used successfully for pest control through
transgenic crops on a commercial scale (Hilder and Boulter, 1999;
Sharma et al., 2004). Insecticidal genes such as Bt, trypsin inhibitors,
lectins, ribosome inactivating proteins, secondary plant metabolites,
vegetative insecticidal proteins, and small RNA viruses can also be
used alone or in combination with Bt genes for pest management
(Sharma, 2009). In addition to widening the pool of useful genes,
genetic engineering also allows the use of several desirable genes in a
single event, and thus reducing the time required to introgress novel
genes into the elite background.
 
Publisher Scientific Publishers
 
Contributor Koul, O
Dhaliwal, G S
Khokhar, S
Singh, R
 
Date 2012
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6595/1/Biopesticides_51_76.pdf
Sharma, H C (2012) Deployment of Transgenic Crops for Pest Management: Ecological Considerations and Their Biosafety to the Environment. In: Biopesticides in Environment and Food Security: Issues and Strategies. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur ,India, pp. 51-76. ISBN 9788172337971