Interactions between plants, pathogens and insects: Possibilities for engineering resistance

✍ Scribed by Carl J. Braun; Joseph M. Jilka; Cynthia L. Hemenway; Nilgun E. Turner

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 706 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0958-1669
• DOI: 10.1016/0958-1669(91)90009-t

✦ Synopsis

Genetically engineered agricultural crops that resist viral and insect pathogens have been produced and tested under both environmentally controlled and field test conditions. Recent advances in creating plants that resist viruses, and plants that contain a bacterial protein, which confers selected insect resistance are reviewed. Recent studies on plant defense mechanisms are also discussed. In the future, plant defense mechanisms will be genetically modified to produce plants that resist insect and fungal pathogens.