Plants and feed baits for controlling damage from feeding insects
AssigneeCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
InventorDavid James Dall
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Abstract
Plants are disclosed which are capable of expressing, in a tissue or tissues susceptible to damage by feeding insects, an exogenous protein(s) such as fusolin or a fusolin-like protein, to reduce damage to the plant by inhibiting feeding, growth and/or development of insects. Feed baits comprising spindle bodies, spindle-like bodies or constituent protein(s) thereof which inhibit feeding, growth and/or development of insects are also disclosed.
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A plant transformed with at least one polynucleotide molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding an insect virus fusolin protein or a fusolin-like protein, said nucleotide sequence being operably linked to a suitable promoter sequence, wherein said transformed plant expresses said fusolin protein or fusolin-like protein in plant tissue or tissues susceptible to damage by feeding insects.
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