Enhanced fungal resistance in transgenic cotton expressing an endochitinase gene from Trichoderma virens
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Enhanced fungal resistance in transgenic cotton expressing an endochitinase gene from Trichoderma virens.
Mycoparasitic fungi are proving to be rich sources of antifungal genes that can be utilized to genetically engineer important crops for resistance against fungal pathogens. We have transformed cotton and tobacco plants with a cDNA clone encoding a 42 kDa endochitinase from the mycoparasitic fungus, Trichoderma virens. Plants from 82 independently transformed callus lines of cotton were regenera...
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عنوان ژورنال: Plant Biotechnology Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1467-7644,1467-7652
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-7652.2003.00029.x