Novel osmotically induced antifungal chitinases and bacterial expression of an active recombinant isoform

Plant Physiology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1219-1225

  Yun, Dae Jin ^a   D'Urzo, Matilde Paino ^a   Abad, Laura ^a,b   Takeda, Satomi ^a,c   Salzman, Ron ^a   Chen, Zutang ^a,d   Lee, Hyeseung ^a   Hasegawa, Paul M ^a   Bressan, Ray A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. LYCOPERSICI; FUSARIUM SP.; LONGIBRACHIATUM; NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NICOTIANA TOMENTOSIFORMIS; TABACUM; TRICHODERMA LONGIBRACHIATUM;

EID: 0030220481     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.4.1219     Document Type: Article

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