Protective effect of an antimicrobial peptide from Mytilus edulis chilensis expressed in Nicotiana tabacum L.

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 144-151

  Arenas, Gloria ^a   Marshall, Sergio H ^a   Espinoza, Valeria ^b   Ramírez, Ingrid ^b   Peña Cortés, Hugo ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Antibacterial peptide; Disease resistance; In vivo expression; Nicotiana tabacum L.; Pseudomonassyringae pv. syringae; Transgenic tobacco plants

Indexed keywords

CLONING; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOBACCO;

ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; IN VIVO EXPRESSION; NICOTIANA TABACUM L.; PSEUDOMONASSYRINGAE PV. SYRINGAE; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO PLANTS;

AMINO ACIDS;

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLONING; CLONING VECTOR; ELECTROPORATION; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CLONES; TOBACCO;

MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS EDULIS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 33646145092     PISSN: 07173458     EISSN: 07173458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2225/vol9-issue2-fulltext-2     Document Type: Article

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