Transgenic plants expressing cationic peptide chimeras exhibit broad-spectrum resistance to phytopathogens

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1162-1166

  Osusky, Milan ^a   Zhou, Guoqing ^a   Osuska, Lubica ^a   Hancock, Robert E ^b   Kay, William W ^a   Misra, Santosh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cationic peptides; Disease resistance; Phytopathogens; Transgenic potato

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN; GENE PRODUCT; MELITTIN;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; DNA INTEGRATION; FOOD SAFETY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TIME; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MELITTEN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0033763238     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/81145     Document Type: Article

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