Deployment of Transgenic Crops for Pest Management: Ecological Considerations and Their Biosafety to the Environment

Sharma, H C (2012) Deployment of Transgenic Crops for Pest Management: Ecological Considerations and Their Biosafety to the Environment. In: Biopesticides in Environment and Food Security: Issues and Strategies. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur ,India, pp. 51-76. ISBN 9788172337971

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Abstract

Significant progress has been made over the past decades in handling and introduction of exotic genes into plants, and has provided opportunities to modify crops to increase yields, impart resistance to biotic and abiotic stress factors, and improve nutrition. Genes from bacteria such as Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) and B. sphearicus have been used successfully for pest control through transgenic crops on a commercial scale (Hilder and Boulter, 1999; Sharma et al., 2004). Insecticidal genes such as Bt, trypsin inhibitors, lectins, ribosome inactivating proteins, secondary plant metabolites, vegetative insecticidal proteins, and small RNA viruses can also be used alone or in combination with Bt genes for pest management (Sharma, 2009). In addition to widening the pool of useful genes, genetic engineering also allows the use of several desirable genes in a single event, and thus reducing the time required to introgress novel genes into the elite background.

Item Type:	Book Section
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Transgenic crops, Pest Management, Biosafety
Subjects:	Others > Entomology
Depositing User:	Mr. Arbind Seth
Date Deposited:	18 Feb 2013 09:19
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2014 05:12
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/6595
Acknowledgement:	UNSPECIFIED
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