Antimicrobial peptides and plant disease control

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Montesinos, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biocontrol agents; Cyclopeptides; Defensins; Peptaibols; Synthetic peptides; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ALAMETHICIN; AMPULLOSPORIN; BACTERIOCIN; CALOPHYCIN; CHRYSOSPERMIN; CLONOSTACHIN; CYCLOPEPTIDE; DEFENSIN; EMERICIN; GRAMICIDIN; HARZIANIN; HELIOFERIN; HYPOMUROCIN; LAXAPHYCIN; LEUCINOSTATIN; PARACELSIN; PEPTAIBOL; PESTICIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYSPORIN; PSEUDOPEPTIDE; STILBOFLAVIN; TEXENOMYCIN; TRICHODECENIN; TRICHOGIN; TRICHOKONIN; TRICHOPOLYN; TRICHORZIANIN; TRICHOVIRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGRICULTURE; APPLE; ARABIDOPSIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CROP; MICROORGANISM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPESEED; RICE; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOVERTICILLIUM; TOBACCO; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC CROP; TRICHODERMA HARZIANUM; VIRUS INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOCINS; DEFENSINS; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 34247137266     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00683.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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