Pinellia ternata agglutinin expression in chloroplasts confers broad spectrum resistance against aphid, whitefly, Lepidopteran insects, bacterial and viral pathogens

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 313-327

  Jin, Shuangxia ^a   Zhang, Xianlong ^a,b   Daniell, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Broad spectrum biotic stress tolerance; Chloroplast transformation; Insect resistance

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INSECTICIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; ERWINIA; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PINELLIA; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; SOLUBILITY; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY;

AGGLUTININS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; APHIDS; CHLOROPLASTS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ERWINIA; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; HEMAGGLUTINATION; INSECTICIDES; LEPIDOPTERA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PINELLIA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; TRANSGENES;

ALEYRODIDAE; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEMISIA TABACI; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; ERWINIA; GALANTHUS; HELICOVERPA ZEA; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MYZUS PERSICAE; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PINELLIA; PINELLIA TERNATA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84857921616     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00663.x     Document Type: Article

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