Constitutive expression of the defense-related Rir1b gene in transgenic rice plants confers enhanced resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-66

  Schaffrath, Ulrich ^b   Mauch, Felix ^c   Freydl, Ernst ^a   Schweizer, Patrick ^a   Dudler, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Oryza sativa; Resistance; Rice blast; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

BLAST DISEASE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYGROMYCIN; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; PLANT VARIETY; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD RELATIVE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; MAGNAPORTHE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; JAPONICA; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; ORYZA SATIVA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. SYRINGAE;

EID: 0033874162     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006423232753     Document Type: Article

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