The continual need to increase food production necessitates the development and
application of novel biotechnologies to enable the provision of improved crop varieties in a …

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 …

This review uses a data-driven, quantitative method to summarize the published, peer-
reviewed literature about the impact of genetically modified (GM) plants on arthropod natural …

One of the first successes of plant biotechnology has been the creation and
commercialisation of transgenic crops exhibiting resistance to major insect pests. First …

Proteinase inhibitors (PIs) from the seeds of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) were
identified as strong inhibitors of Helicoverpa armigera gut proteinases (HGP). Biochemical …

Protease inhibitors are a promising complement to Bt toxins for the development of insect-
resistant transgenic crops, but their limited specificity against proteolytic enzymes and the …

Transgenic plants are produced via Agrobacterium mediated transformation and other direct
DNA transfer methods. A number of transgenes conferring resistance to insects, diseases …

Due to increasing problems occurring from massive applications of pesticides, such as
insect resistance to pesticides, the use of biotechnological tools to minimize losses from …

The inhibitory activity of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (aprotinin), a natural polypeptide
and a proteinase inhibitor, was demonstrated on gut proteinases of three lepidopteran …

By expressing specific MYB transcription factors in plants, levels of anthocyanins can be
raised and new varieties of crops with attractive red or purple foliage, fruits, and flowers can …