Engineering a culturable Serratia symbiotica strain for aphid paratransgenesis
Katherine M. Elston, Julie M. Perreau, Gerald P. Maeda, Nancy A. Moran, Jeffrey E. Barrick
This paper genetically engineers a culturable aphid symbiont, Serratia symbiotica CWBI-2.3T, to track its colonization and induce heterologous gene expression in aphids, enabling paratransgenesis applications.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology · Dec 3, 2020Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology