Composition, nucleic acid construct and method for conferring tolerance to viral disease in social insects

Fecha de publicación: 12/03/2014
Fuente: WIPO "apiculture"
The present invention relates to a bee-ingestible composition comprising an isolated double stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) comprising an RNA sequence complementary to a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence that is highly homologous to a nucleotide sequence of two or more bee viruses.