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Engineering insect-free cereals

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A cluster of three rice lectin receptor kinases confers resistance to planthopper insects.

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Figure 1: The rice BPH does not cause damage in rice plants carrying the Bph3 locus.

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  1. Saskia A. Hogenhout is at the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.,

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  2. Cyril Zipfel is at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.,

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