| a novel approach for developing resistance in rice against phloem limited viruses by antagonizing the phloem feeding hemipteran vectors. | rice production is known to be severely affected by virus transmitting rice pests, brown planthopper (bph) and green leafhopper (glh) of the order hemiptera, feeding by phloem abstraction. asal, a novel lectin from leaves of garlic (allium sativum) was previously demonstrated to be toxic towards hemipteran pests when administered in artificial diet as well as in asal expressing transgenic plants. in this report asal was targeted under the control of phloem-specific agrobacterium rolc and rice su ... | 2006 | 16941213 |