Costs of resistance

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 305-308

  Purrington, Colin B ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0033919653     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(00)00085-6     Document Type: Review

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29. Royo J., León J., Vancanneyt G., Albar J.P., Rosahl S., Ortego F., Castañera P., Sánchez-Serrano J.J. Antisense-mediated depletion of a potato lipoxygenase reduces wound induction of proteinase inhibitors and increases weight gain of insects. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 96:1999;1146-1151. Suppression of endogenous lipoxygenase activity disables production of proteinase inhibitors, and response results in a plant with high tuber yield. Thus, this paper shows nicely how antisense transgene technology can be used to determine costs.
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