Structural journey of an insecticidal protein against western corn rootworm

Abstract The broad adoption of transgenic crops has revolutionized agriculture. However, resistance to insecticidal proteins by agricultural pests poses a continuous challenge to maintaining crop productivity and new proteins are urgently needed to replace those utilized for existing transgenic trai...

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Main Authors: Guendalina Marini, Brad Poland, Chris Leininger, Natalya Lukoyanova, Dan Spielbauer, Jennifer K. Barry, Dan Altier, Amy Lum, Eric Scolaro, Claudia Pérez Ortega, Nasser Yalpani, Gary Sandahl, Tim Mabry, Jeffrey Klever, Timothy Nowatzki, Jian-Zhou Zhao, Amit Sethi, Adane Kassa, Virginia Crane, Albert L. Lu, Mark E. Nelson, Narayanan Eswar, Maya Topf, Helen R. Saibil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39891-7