A high throughput functional expression assay system for a defence gene conferring transgenic resistance on rice against the sheath blight pathogen, Rhizoctonia solani

Plant Science

Volumn 165, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 969-976

  Kumar, Krish K ^a   Poovannan, Kandasami ^a   Nandakumar, Rangaraj ^b   Thamilarasi, Kandasamy ^a   Geetha, Chinnaswami ^a   Jayashree, Nirmalkumar ^b   Kokiladevi, Easwaran ^a   Raja, Joseph A J ^a   Samiyappan, Ramasamy ^a   Sudhakar, Durailagaraja ^a   Balasubramanian, Ponnuswami ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Salem International University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transformation; Chitinase; Defence genes; Disease resistance; Functional assessment; Rhizoctonia solani; Sheath blight; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GENES; GREENHOUSES;

CROP DISEASES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROBACTERIUM; HYPHOMYCETES; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOCTONIA; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

EID: 0141976404     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(03)00271-1     Document Type: Article

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