Engineered detoxification confers resistance against a pathogenic bacterium

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1021-1024

  Zhang, Lianhui ^a,b   Xu, Jingling ^a,b   Birch, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Albicidin detoxification; Antipathogenesis; Disease resistance; Sugarcane; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032851627     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13721     Document Type: Article

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