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Defence-related gene expression in transgenic lemon plants producing an antimicrobial Trichoderma harzianum endochitinase during fungal infection.
Transgenic research - 1 Oct 2008
Distefano Gaetano, La Malfa Stefano, Vitale Alessandro, Lorito Matteo, Deng Ziniu, Gentile Alessandra
Abstract excerpt
Constitutive over-expression of antifungal genes from microorganisms involved in plant defence mechanisms represents a promising strategy for conferring genetic resistance against a broad range of plant pathogenic fungi. In the present work, two transgenic lemon clones with the chit42 gene from Trichoderma harzianum were tested for resistance to fungal disease and expression level of defence-related genes was...
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