Engineering fire blight resistance into the apple cultivar 'Gala' using the FB_MR5 CC-NBS-LRR resistance gene of Malus × robusta 5

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 728-733

  Broggini, Giovanni A L ^a   Wöhner, Thomas ^b   Fahrentrapp, Johannes ^a,d   Kost, Thomas D ^a   Flachowsky, Henryk ^b   Peil, Andreas ^b   Hanke, Maria Viola ^b   Richter, Klaus ^b   Patocchi, Andrea ^c   Gessler, Cesare ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^c AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

^d ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Erwinia amylovora; Gene for gene; GMO

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

CROSS BREEDING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PROCEDURES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRULENCE;

CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MALUS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84904768041     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12177     Document Type: Article

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