Enhanced resistance to the poplar fungal pathogen, Septoria musiva, in hybrid poplar clones transformed with genes encoding antimicrobial peptides

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 383-389

  Liang, Haiying ^a   Catranis, Catharine M ^a   Maynard, Charles A ^a   Powell, William A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Biomass species; Pathogen resistance; Septoria leaf spot; Transgenic trees

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEPTORIA MUSIVA;

FUNGI; MYCOSPHAERELLA POPULORUM; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; SEPTORIA;

EID: 0036203523     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014552503140     Document Type: Article

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