Transgenic sweet potato expressing thionin from barley gives resistance to black rot disease caused by Ceratocystis fimbriata in leaves and storage roots

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 987-997

  Muramoto, Nobuhiko ^a,c   Tanaka, Tomoko ^a   Shimamura, Takashi ^a   Mitsukawa, Norihiro ^a   Hori, Etsuko ^a   Koda, Katsunori ^a   Otani, Motoyasu ^b   Hirai, Masana ^a   Nakamura, Kenzo ^c,d   Imaeda, Takao ^a  

^a Rd Management Section   (Japan)

^b ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Black rot resistance; Storage roots; Sweet potato; Thionin

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; BETA AMYLASE; HORDOTHIONIN PROTEIN, HORDEUM VULGARE; PUROTHIONIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORDEUM; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SWEET POTATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ASCOMYCOTA; BETA-AMYLASE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; HORDEUM; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERATOCYSTIS FIMBRIATA; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; FUNGI; HORDEUM; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 84861183845     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1217-5     Document Type: Article

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