Cross-Resistance to Short Residual Sulfonylurea Herbicides in Transgenic Tobacco Plants

Herbicide Phytotoxicity and Resistance to Herbicides in Legume Plants

In situ transfer of antibiotic resistance genes from transgenic (transplastomic) tobacco plants to bacteria.

Interkingdom gene transfer is limited by a combination of physical, biological, and genetic barriers. The results of greenhouse experiments involving transplastomic plants (genetically engineered chloroplast genomes) cocolonized by pathogenic and opportunistic soil bacteria demonstrated that these barriers could be eliminated. The Acinetobacter sp. strain BD413, which is outfitted with homologo...

Expression of Human Lactoferrin cDNA Confers Resistance to <i>Ralstonia solanacearum</i> in Transgenic Tobacco Plants

Zhang, Z., Coyne, D. P., Vidaver, A. K., and Mitra, A. 1998. Expression of human lactoferrin cDNA confers resistance to Ralstonia solanacearum in transgenic tobacco plants. Phytopathology 88:730-734. A construct containing a human lactoferrin cDNA was used to transform tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) using an Agrobacterium-mediated DNA-transfer system to express this human protein in transgenic pla...

Expression of Human Lactoferrin cDNA Confers Resistance to Ralstonia solanacearum in Transgenic Tobacco Plants.

ABSTRACT A construct containing a human lactoferrin cDNA was used to transform tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) using an Agrobacterium-mediated DNA-transfer system to express this human protein in transgenic plants. Transformants were analyzed by Southern, Northern, and Western blots to determine integration of the cDNA into the plant genome and lactoferrin gene expression levels. Most transgenic pl...

Expression and antimicrobial activity analysis of dermaseptin B1 recombinant peptides in tobacco transgenic plants

Recently, new molecular breeding and genetic engineering approaches have emerged to overcome the limitations of conventional breeding methods in generating disease-resistance transgenic plants. The use of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) to produce transgenic plants resistant to a wide range of plant pathogens has achieved great success. Among huge number of AMPs, Dermaseptin B1 (DrsB1), an antimi...