Enhanced resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea conferred by expression of a cecropin A gene in transgenic rice

Planta

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 392-406

  Coca, María ^a,b   Peñas, Gisela ^a,c   Gómez, Jorge ^a,b   Campo, Sonia ^a,b   Bortolotti, Cristina ^a,b   Messeguer, Joaquima ^a,c   San Segundo, Blanca ^a,b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Cecropin A; Oryza; Rice blast fungus; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CECROPIN A; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAGNAPORTHE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; RICE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MAGNAPORTHE; MOTHS; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

BOMBYX MORI; CECROPIA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HYALOPHORA CECROPIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; ORYZA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 33644644450     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-005-0069-z     Document Type: Article

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