Engineering plants against pathogens: A general strategy

Field Crops Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 79-84

  Garcia Olmedo F ^a   Molina, A ^a   Segura, A ^a   Moreno, M ^a   Castagnaro, A ^a   Titarenko, E ^a   Rodriguez Palenzuela, P ^a   Pineiro M ^a   Diaz, I ^a  

^a Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

Author keywords

Defence proteins; Disease; Hordeum vulgare; Plant diseases; Resistance; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343994052     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4290(95)00061-5     Document Type: Article

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