Transgenic insects : techniques and applications /

Insect transgenesis promises improvements in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and public health. Many important insects can now be routinely transformed with effectors that have useful applications. Agriculture presents the largest market for transgenic insects and has a foundational history of success...

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Corporate Author: C.A.B. International
Other Authors: Benedict, Mark Q. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, [2014]
Series:CABI biotechnology series ; 3.
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Summary:Insect transgenesis promises improvements in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and public health. Many important insects can now be routinely transformed with effectors that have useful applications. Agriculture presents the largest market for transgenic insects and has a foundational history of success with sterile insect technique for control of pests including Mediterranean fruit flies and screwworms. Biotechnology will contribute superior markers, suppressible sterility and sex-conversion. Public health is also seeing transgenic mosquitoes developed which suppress natural populations and are in.
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Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781780644523
1780644523
DOI:10.1079/9781780644516.0000
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