Plants having increased resistance to pathogens and method for producing said plants
AssigneeEberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
InventorsAndrea Gust, Malou Fraiture, Weiguo Zhang, Frédéric Brunner
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Abstract
The invention relates to a plant having increased resistance to pathogens, wherein the protein SOBIR1 from Arabidopsis thaliana or a homologous protein, which is capable of interacting with at least one of the PRR receptor proteins RLP30 or RLP1, and at least one of the PRR receptor proteins RLP30 or RLP1 are overexpressed in comparison with the wild-type plant or are newly synthesized. The pathogens are preferably fungi, in particular from the genus Sclerotinia, and bacteria, in particular from the genus Xanthomonas. The invention further relates to a method for producing a plant having increased resistance to pathogens.
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A plant with increased resistance to pathogens, in which the protein Arabidopsis thaliana Suppressor of BIR1-1 (AtSOBIR1) and at least one of the proteins Arabidopsis thaliana Receptor Like Protein 30 (AtRLP30) or Arabidopsis thaliana Receptor Like Protein 1 (AtRLP1), are newly synthesized by heterologous expression.
A method for producing a plant with increased resistance to pathogens, comprising the step of overexpressing AtSOBIR1 and at least one of the proteins AtRLP30 or AtRLP1 in a plant compared to the wild-type plant by heterologous expression.
A genetically modified plant with increased resistance to Sclerotinia or Xanthomonas, in which a Arabidopsis thaliana protein Suppressor of BIR 1-1 (AtSOBIR1), and at least one of a Arabidopsis thaliana proteins Receptor Like Protein (AtRLP)30 or AtRLP1, are heterologously expressed, and wherein the plant is of a species that lacks a protein complex comprising homologs of AtSOBIR1 and AtRLP1 or AtSOBIR1 and AtRLP30.
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