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Inducible expression of bacterio-opsin in transgenic tobacco and tomato plants.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Jun 2001
Rizhsky L, Mittler R
Abstract excerpt
The development of new strategies to enhance resistance of plants to pathogens is instrumental in preventing agricultural losses. Lesion mimic, the spontaneous formation of lesions resembling hypersensitive response lesions in the absence of a pathogen, is a dramatic phenotype occasionally induced upon expression of certain transgenes in plants. These transgenes simulate the presence of a pathogen and, therefore,...
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