RETRACTED: Immunodiagnostic analysis of transgenic vegetative insecticidal protein in genetically modified crops/produce

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). rticle has been retracted at the request of the Editor as the authors have plagiarized part of a published PhD thesis entitled “Studies on the characterization and purification of recombinant Bt-insecticidal proteins and development of polyclonal antibody based Elisa kit”, awarded to Dr Abhishek Ojha (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi) on 23rd September 2008 by the University of Lucknow, India. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such, this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.