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Abstracts Home Research in Insect and Disease Resistance

Development of Bacillus thuringiensis sweetpotato resistant to Cylas spp.

M. Ghislain, W.J. Moar, R.O.M. Mwanga, B. Odongo, C.C. Crissman

International Potato Center, Crop Improvement and Genetic Resources Department, Peru

Engineered cysteine proteinase inhibitors for the transgenic control of banana weevil

A. Kiggundu, K. Kunert, A. Viljoen, M. Pillay, C. Gold, D. Michaud

National Agricultural Research Organisation / Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, Uganda

Field performance of Vip3A cotton against various lepidopteran cotton pests

F. Shotkoski

Agricultural Biotechnology Support Program II -Cornell University, USA

Assessing the risk of transgene dissemination associated with the introduction of Bt cowpea in Africa

R.S. Pasquet, J.B. de la Salle Tignegre

International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya

Biodiversity of target and non-target arthropods of Bt maize in five maize production environments in Kenya

J.M. Songa, S. Mugo, D. Bergvinson

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya

Insect resistance for African maize, cowpea, rice, sorghum: which Bt genes and tissue-specific promoters work best against which insect pest?

I. Altosaar, J. Mao, J.T. Arnason, M. Kendall, M.A. Zaidi

University of Ottawa, Canada

Genes that confer resistance to angular leaf spot in common bean: genetic characterization and development of molecular markers

G.S. Mahuku, C. Montoya, M.A. Henriquez, C. Jara, S. Beebe

International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Identification of loci under selection in a maize population recurrently selected for quantitative resistance to northern corn leaf blight

R.J. Wisser, R.J. Nelson

Dept of Plant Breeding and Genetics -Cornell University Inst for Genomic Diversity, USA

Towards molecular enhancement of cassava for resistance to cassava brown streak disease

I. Ingelbrecht, Y. Lokko, A. Raji, C. Herron, A. Dixon, N. Mahungu, S. Winter

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria

RNA-mediated cassava geminivirus resistance in transgenic cassava

P. Zhang, H. Vanderschuren, W. Gruissem
Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH-Zurich - Universitatstrasse 2, Switzerland

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