Pyramiding transgenic resistance in elite indica rice cultivars against the sheath blight and bacterial blight

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 791-804

  Maruthasalam, S ^a   Kalpana, K ^a   Kumar, K K ^a   Loganathan, M ^a   Poovannan, K ^a   Raja, J A J ^a   Kokiladevi, E ^a   Samiyappan, R ^a   Sudhakar, D ^a   Balasubramanian, P ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial blight; Chitinase; Disease resistance; Sheath blight; Thaumatin like protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CROPS; PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL BLIGHT; CHITINASE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; SHEATH BLIGHT; THAUMATIN LIKE PROTEIN;

CULTIVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYPHOMYCETES; PUSA; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLISTICS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA PRIMERS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 34447305216     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-006-0292-5     Document Type: Article

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