Fungal and bacterial disease resistance in transgenic plants expressing human lysozyme

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 674-679

  Nakajima, H ^a   Muranaka, T ^a   Ishige, F ^a   Akutsu, K ^b   Oeda, K ^a  

^a SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Human lysozyme; Transgenic tobacco plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030750611     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002990050300     Document Type: Article

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