Acknowledgements
We thank Dr. Minsheng You, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University,
for kindly providing specimens of the P. xylostella DBM strain
‘Fuzhou lab’; Dr. Takashi Yamamoto (DuPont Pioneer) for providing Bt
proteins; and Yingbo Mao, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences,
who kindly provided the pBSK intron vector. The project was funded by
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2013 – 2014) and Postdoctoral
Research Program of Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese
Academy of Sciences (2013 – 2015).