AGRE-0003 Insect Resistant Transgenic Plants with Improved Performance

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Biotechnology : ECLAIR Cluster V - Biological Pest Control : Integrated Crop Protection & Biological Control : Plant Genetics

AGRE-0003 Insect Resistant Transgenic Plants with Improved Performance 1 January 1991 - 31 December 1991

A number of projects funded under the ECLAIR programme, although not directly producing a non-food product from agricultural raw material, are of relevance to crops in general since they aim to develop new methods of pest and disease control, which could reduce cost of raw material production, as well as offering environmental advantages. This project considered here AGRE-0003 is concerned with the production of transgenic plants, but in this case with the objective of conferring resistance to insect attack by introduction of a gene encoding the insecticidal protein produced by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis.

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Coordinator

• Marnix PEFEROEN / Plant Genetic systems BELGIUM

EC Scientific Officer

• Joaquim AZCON BIETO / European Commission DG XII E-2 SDME 8/27 / BELGIUM