Plant-insect interactions: molecular approaches to insect resistance.
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Recent advances in our understanding of induced responses in plants and their regulation, brought about by a revolution in molecular biology, have re-focused attention on the potential exploitation of endogenous resistance mechanisms for crop protection. The future goal of crop biotechnology is thus to engineer a durable, multimechanistic resistance to insect pests through an understanding of the diversity of plant responses to insect attack.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current opinion in biotechnology
دوره 15 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004