Fecha de publicación: 19/10/2012 Fuente: WIPO "apis cerana" Methods and compositions for transforming plants to express polynucleotides capable of gene silencing gene expression in pathogens of beneficial insets such as IAPV, Nosema species and Varroa mites, and methods for using the transgenic plants for reducing infection and susceptibility of bees to Colony Collapse Disorder are provided.