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| Title |
α-Amylase inhibitor-1 gene from Phaseolus vulgaris expressed in Coffea arabicaplants inhibits α-amylases from the coffee berry borer pest
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| Published in |
BMC Biotechnology, June 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6750-10-44 |
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| Authors |
Aulus EAD Barbosa, Érika VS Albuquerque, Maria CM Silva, Djair SL Souza, Osmundo B Oliveira-Neto, Arnubio Valencia, Thales L Rocha, Maria F Grossi-de-Sa |
| Abstract |
Coffee is an important crop and is crucial to the economy of many developing countries, generating around US$70 billion per year. There are 115 species in the Coffea genus, but only two, C. arabica and C. canephora, are commercially cultivated. Coffee plants are attacked by many pathogens and insect-pests, which affect not only the production of coffee but also its grain quality, reducing the commercial value of the product. The main insect-pest, the coffee berry borer (Hypotheneumus hampei), is responsible for worldwide annual losses of around US$500 million. The coffee berry borer exclusively damages the coffee berries, and it is mainly controlled by organochlorine insecticides that are both toxic and carcinogenic. Unfortunately, natural resistance in the genus Coffea to H. hampei has not been documented. To overcome these problems, biotechnological strategies can be used to introduce an alpha-amylase inhibitor gene (alpha-AI1), which confers resistance against the coffee berry borer insect-pest, into C. arabica plants. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 57 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 13 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 15% |
| Other | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 10% |
| Other | 9 | 15% |
| Unknown | 8 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 38 | 63% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 12% |
| Chemical Engineering | 1 | 2% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 11 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 June 2013.
All research outputs
#6,760,835
of 22,699,621 outputs
Outputs from BMC Biotechnology
#381
of 935 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,046
of 93,845 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Biotechnology
#5
of 10 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 935 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its peers.
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