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Plant pest destruction goes viral

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Fusion of a viral coat protein to an insect-specific neurotoxin delivers the molecule into aphids where it is insecticidal.

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Figure 1: Aphids feeding on a transgenic plant expressing a luteovirid coat protein–insect neurotoxin fusion protein (purple ovals).

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  1. Anna E. Whitfield and Dorith Rotenberg are in the Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA,

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  2. Thomas L. German is in the Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.,

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