Plant disease resistance resulting from the expression of foreign phytoalexins

✍ Scribed by Regina Fischer; Rüdiger Hain

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 785 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0958-1669
• DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(05)80024-2

✦ Synopsis

For some time, phytoalexins have been inferred to play a role in the resistance of plants to pathogens. Recently, recombinant DNA technology has opened the possibility of introducing foreign phytoalexins into plants and/or modifying endogenous antimicrobial compounds within transgenic plants, resulting in enhanced disease resistance. To date, however, this intriguing strategy has been limited to exploiting only a few phytoalexin biosynthetic genes.