Scientists Develop Insect Resistant Pea

Scientists at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany and University of Ottawa, Canada reported the successful development of genetically modified pea expressing insect resistance gene cry1Ac through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Molecular analyses confirmed the transformation which was evident up to the T4 generation. Further analyses indicated total larval mortality and significantly decreased feeding damage on the developed transgenic pea plants as compared to 85 percent larval survival and heavy feeding damage on non-transformed pea plants.

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