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Field performance of chitinase transgenic silver birches (Betula pendula): resistance to fungal diseases.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Aug 2004
Pasonen H-L, Seppänen S-K, Degefu Y, Rytkönen A, von Weissenberg K, Pappinen A
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A field trial of 15 transgenic birch lines expressing a sugar beet chitinase IV gene and the corresponding controls was established in southern Finland to study the effects of the level of sugar beet chitinase IV expression on birch resistance to fungal diseases. The symptoms caused by natural infections of two fungal pathogens, Pyrenopeziza betulicola (leaf spot disease) and Melampsoridium betulinum (birch...
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