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Transgenic approaches to microbial disease resistance in crop plants
1Novartis Agribusiness, Biotechnology Research Inc., 3054 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|March 6, 1999
Abstract:
Recent progress in the genetic dissection of plant disease resistance signaling pathways has opened a number of new avenues towards engineering pathogen resistance in crops. Genes controlling race-specific and broad-spectrum resistance responses have been cloned, and novel induced resistance pathways have been identified in model and crop systems. Advances continue to be made in identification of antifungal proteins with effects inhibitory to either pathogen development or accumulation of associated mycotoxins.