Rice oxalate oxidase gene driven by green tissue-specific promoter increases tolerance to sheath blight pathogen (Rhizoctonia solani) in transgenic rice

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 910-922

  Molla, Kutubuddin A ^a   Karmakar, Subhasis ^a   Chanda, Palas K ^b   Ghosh, Satabdi ^a   Sarkar, Sailendra N ^a   Datta, Swapan K ^a,c   Datta, Karabi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; OXALATE OXIDASE; OXALIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOCTONIA; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORYZA SATIVA; OXALIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA-LYASE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RHIZOCTONIA; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84887072301     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12055     Document Type: Article

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