Genetic engineering of crop plants for fungal resistance: role of antifungal genes

[en] Fungal diseases damage crop plants and affect agricultural production. Transgenic plants have been produced by inserting antifungal genes to confer resistance against fungal pathogens. Genes of fungal cell wall-degrading enzymes, such as chitinase and glucanase, are frequently used to produce fungalresistant transgenic crop plants. In this review, we summarize the details of various transformation studies to develop fungal resistance in crop plants.

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Biotechnology

Author, co-author :

Stanislaus, Antony Ceasar ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Génomique fonctionnelle et imagerie moléculaire végétale

Ignacimuthu, S

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English

Title :

Genetic engineering of crop plants for fungal resistance: role of antifungal genes

Publication date :

February 2012

Journal title :

Biotechnology Letters

ISSN :

0141-5492

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1573-6776

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Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands

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Pages :

995–1002

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