Antifungal transgenes expression in petunia hybrida

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 508, Issue , 2000, Pages 157-161

  Esposito, S ^a   Colucci, M G ^a   Frusciante, L ^a   Filippone, E ^a   Lorito, M ^a   Bressan, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endochitinase; Genetic transformation; Osmotin; Petunia hybrida; Trichoderma harzianum

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244438956     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2000.508.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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