Development of wheat scab symptoms is delayed in transgenic wheat plants that constitutively express a rice thaumatin-like protein gene

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 755-760

  Chen, W P ^a   Chen, P D ^a   Liu, D J ^a   Kynast, R ^b   Friebe, B ^b   Velazhahan, R ^b   Muthukrishnan, S ^b   Gill, B S ^b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Genetic transformation; Thaumatin like protein; Triticum aestivum; Wheat scab

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT GENETICS; THAUMATIN; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT SCAB;

FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0032877906     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001220051294     Document Type: Article

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