Antifungal activity of a virally encoded gene in transgenic wheat

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 446-449

  Clausen, Monika ^a   Kräuter, Regina ^a   Schachermayr, Gabriele ^b   Potrykus, Ingo ^a   Sautter, Christof ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; KP4; Tilletia tritici; Transformation; Triticum aestivum L.

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DNA INTEGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT; USTILAGO MAYDIS; WHEAT;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEEDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRITICUM; UBIQUITINS; USTILAGO; VIRAL PROTEINS; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; TILLETIA CARIES; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; USTILAGO MAYDIS; USTILAGO MAYDIS VIRUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0343569976     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74521     Document Type: Article

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