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by Jonathan Weitzman

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Pest management by transgene

Email: Jonathan Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021216-03 doi:10.1186/20021216-03

Published

16 December 2002

Biological methods for insect pest control offer advantages over toxic pesticides. The sterile insect technique (SIT) involves the large-scale release of sterile insects that effectively compete, resulting in infertile matings and population reduction. In an Advanced Online Publication in Nature Biotechnology, Carsten Horn and Ernst Wimmer at the Universitat Bayreuth, Germany, describe a genetic approach to SIT that uses a transgene to generate sterile insects, rather than conventional ionizing radiation (Nature Biotechnology, DOI:10.1038/nbt769, 16 December 2002).


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