Increased resistance to crown rust disease in transgenic Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) expressing the rice chitinase gene

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 811-818

  Takahashi, Wataru ^a   Fujimori, Masahiro ^b   Miura, Yuichi ^a   Komatsu, Toshinori ^b   Nishizawa, Yoko ^c   Hibi, Tadaaki ^d   Takamizo, Tadashi ^b  

^a Forage Crop Research Institute   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Particle bombardment; Pathogenesis related proteins; Puccinia coronata; Selectable marker free transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOMARKERS; CHITIN; DISEASES; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CROWN RUST DISEASES; HYGROMYCIN PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE (HPT) GENES; PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR);

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

CHITINASE; HYGROMYCIN B KINASE; HYGROMYCIN-B KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RCG2 PROTEIN, ORYZA SATIVA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; LOLIUM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REGENERATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLISTICS; CHITINASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC MARKERS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LOLIUM; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REGENERATION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

CELLS; CHITIN; CROWNS; DISEASES; MARKERS;

EID: 16444375394     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-004-0900-1     Document Type: Article

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