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Potential of animal myeloperoxidase to protect plants from pathogens
T J Jacks1, P J Cotty, O Hinojosa
1Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA 70179.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|August 15, 1991
Abstract:
The effect of animal myeloperoxidase (EC 1.11.1.7) on the viability of a plant pathogen was determined. Lethality of hydrogen peroxide to germinating spores of Aspergillus flavus increased 90-fold enzymically. Singlet oxygen was present but hypochlorite accounted for two-thirds of the increase. The results indicate myeloperoxidase could improve microbial resistance in plants, perhaps transgenically.