Publications by authors named "P B Lavrik"

Genetically modified potato plants that are resistant to the Colorado potato beetle, plus either the potato leaf roll virus or potato virus Y, have recently been commercialized. As part of the safety assessment for plants produced by modern biotechnology, the composition of the food/feed must be compared to that of the food/feed produced by an equivalent plant variety from a conventional source. The composition of important nutritional and antinutritional factors in tubers produced by virus- and insect-resistant potato plants were compared to tubers produced by conventional potato plants.

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Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis insecticidal protein was produced in recombinant Escherichia coli and purified to near homogeneity to provide quantities of protein for safety-assessment studies associated with the registration of transgenic potato plants. The 68-kDa protein is produced naturally by Bacillus thuringiensis subsp.

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The peritrophic membrane (PM) in tobacco budworm larvae (Heliothis virescens, Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a continuous sac which encloses the food bolus in the midgut and hindgut. The PM is a single-walled structure 3-5 mum thick which is comprised of two main layers or laminae. The laminae may be fused into a single structure or remain separated by a space which may contain additional thin strands of matrix.

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Light microscope immunofluorescence was used to localize the membrane binding of Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki 63-kDa delta-endotoxin in Heliothis virescens midgut and Malpighian tubules. Staining was observed along all exposed mucosal (apical microvillar) plasma membranes. Interpretation of the serosal (basal) plasma membrane staining was complicated because the basal lamina also stained.

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