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Can plant defensins be used to engineer durable commercially useful fungal resistance in crop plants?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 01 Oct 2011Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Fungal Biology Reviews, volume 25, pages 128-135 (issn: 1749-4613,

Authors: Uma Shankar Sagaram; Dilip M. Shah; Jagdeep Kaur;

doi: 10.1016/j.fbr.2011.07.004

Can plant defensins be used to engineer durable commercially useful fungal resistance in crop plants?

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Abstract Plant defensins are cysteine-rich proteins that play an important role in defense against fungal pathogens. Because of their potent antifungal activity, they have a strong potential to be used for engineering disease resistance in crops. Significant advances have been made in elucidating their structure–activity relationships and modes of antifungal action. Their expression in transgenic plants provides resistance to fungal pathogens in crop plants. In this article, we review recent advances and offer future perspectives on the use of these proteins for engineering durable commercially useful disease resistance in transgenic crop plants.

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