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Enhanced methanol production in plants provides broad spectrum insect resistance.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2013

Dixit Sameer, Upadhyay Santosh Kumar, Singh Harpal, Sidhu Om Prakash, Verma Praveen Chandra, K Chandrashekar

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Plants naturally emit methanol as volatile organic compound. Methanol is toxic to insect pests; but the quantity produced by most of the plants is not enough to protect them against invading insect pests. In the present study, we demonstrated that the over-expression of pectin methylesterase, derived from Arabidopsis thaliana and Aspergillus niger, in transgenic tobacco plants enhances methanol production and...

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PMID: 24223989
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079664
PMCID: PMC3818224

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