Insect Resistance
Direct Bt expression fights internal bugs
- truncated or synthesized version better
- sequence modified version even better
- removed mRNA hairpins, terminators, translation pauses
- altered codon usage to reflect that of plant
- chloroplast targeted version even better
- targets: tomato, tobacco, potato, rice, corn, apple, eggplant ,canola, alfalfa, walnut, poplar, spruce, cranberry, cotton
- problems: resistance!! (solution: inducible?)