Enhanced resistance to early blight in transgenic tomato lines expressing heterologous plant defense genes

Planta

Volumn 222, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 858-866

  Schaefer, Scott C ^a   Gasic, Ksenija ^a   Cammue, Bruno ^b   Broekaert, Willem ^b   Van Damme, Els J M ^c   Peumans, Willy J ^c   Korban, Schuyler S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alternaria solani; Antimicrobial peptides; Disease resistance; Lycopersicon esculentum; Pathogenesis related proteins

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSIDASE; MAP PROTEIN, MIRABILIS JALAPA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; IRIDACEAE; MAIZE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIRABILIS; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALTERNARIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; IRIS PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MIRABILIS; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA SOLANI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MIRABILIS; MIRABILIS JALAPA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 27844523584     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-005-0026-x     Document Type: Article

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