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Study tour to New Zealand, control measures for canegrubs : Final report SRD06001
(BSES, 2006) Nutt, KA; Fox, RA
Kerry Nutt and Rachael Fox visited researchers at HortResearch (Auckland and Palmerston North), Crop & Food and AgResearch (Lincoln). The CRCSIIB 1Bii project group currently uses the avidin transgene with the PPI vacuolar targeting sequence developed by scientists at HortResearch. This trip was an opportunity to discuss the progress of work with PPI-avidin, obtain methods for screening plants and ideas for identifying promising plants earlier, as well as information to help progress plants to commercialisation.
Characterisation of proteinase inhibitors from canegrubs for possible application to genetically engineer pest-derived resistance into sugarcane : SRDC final report STU032
(2005) Nutt, KA
The primary objective of this research was to identify, isolate and clone a proteinase inhibitor from the haemolymph of a canegrub species with activity against the major midgut proteases of the source insect. The potential for using this canegrub-derived proteinase inhibitor as a novel source of insect resistance in transgenic sugarcane was also to be determined. The project has formed the basis of a PhD thesis submitted to the Queensland University of Technology.