| 摘要 |
<p>A method of infecting insects is disclosed; the method utilizes a form of a baculovirus which is highly efficient at establishing infection and is normally destined to become occluded within the polyhedrin or granulin - Pre-occluded Virus (POV). Specifically, the POV as derived from a polyhedrin-minus or granulin-minus (lacking a functional polyhedrin or granulin gene) baculovirus is fed to insect larvae per os resulting in high infection rates. The discovery of the POV form of polyhedrin-minus baculoviruses was essential to our invention of the novel method of infecting insect larvae per os using the POV form of polyhedrin-minus baculovirus, and as such is also disclosed.</p> |
