Silencing the Majority: Transgenic plants expressing an enzyme that degrades microbial signaling molecules show promise in controlling damage caused by bacterial infections

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 735-736

  Whitehead, Neil A ^a   Welch, Martin ^a   Salmond, George P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIIA PROTEIN, BACILLUS; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035434637     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/90780     Document Type: Article

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