Resistance to Botrytis cinerea in scented geranium transformed with a gene encoding the antimicrobial protein Ace-AMP1

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 835-840

  Bi, Y M ^a   Cammue, B P A ^b   Goodwin, P H ^a   KrishnaRaj, S ^a   Saxena, P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ace AMP1; Botrytis cinerea; Disease resistance; Genetic transformation; Geranium

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INDUCED RESISTANCE; ONION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BOTRYTIS CINEREA; PELARGONIUM;

EID: 0033015532     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002990050670     Document Type: Article

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