Increasing bacterial disease resistance in plants utilizing antibacterial genes from insects

✍ Scribed by Jesse M. Jaynes; Kleanthis G. Xanthopoulos; Luis Destéfano-Beltrán; John H. Dodds

• Book ID: 102760330
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1007 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0265-9247
• DOI: 10.1002/bies.950060605

✦ Synopsis

The introduction of genes into plants encoding potent antibacterial proteins, derived from insects, may signijicantly augment the level of their resistance to bacterial disease. Using modern techniques, genes of choice can be introduced into plant tissue and this tissue can be manipulated to produce viable plants. The potato has been chosen as the model system, not only because of its plasticity of development, which allows for the relatively easy regeneration of whole plants from transformed tissue, but also because the potato ranks among the top four plants in the world in terms of economic importance.