Pathogen-resistant plants and method for production thereof
AssigneeNational Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
InventorsICHIRO MITSUHARA, MASAHIRO OHSHIMA, YUKO OHASHI
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for efficiently producing a useful foreign protein in a plant. The present invention also relates to a method for expressing a foreign protein in a plant so as to provide the plant with a new property and to the breeding of a plant. More specifically, the present invention relates to a plant containing a gene encoding an anti-bacterial peptide derived from a Diptera insect and which confers resistance to bacterial and fungal pathogens.
Claims20
A plant which confers resistance to pathogenic fungi, comprising a gene encoding an anti-bacterial peptide.
A plant with resistance to pathogenic bacteria, comprising a gene selected from the group consisting of:
- a recombinant gene in which a gene encoding an anti-bacterial peptide is bound to a plant gene via a hinge region of tobacco chitinase, an expression cassette in which the recombinant gene is bound to a plant promoter, and a gene having the expression cassette and a drug resistance gene linked to a plant promoter which is constitutively expressed.
A recombinant gene in which a gene encoding an anti-bacterial peptide is bound to a plant gene via a hinge region of tobacco chitinase gene.
A plant which confers resistance to pathogenic fungi and bacteria, comprising a gene encoding a peptide which has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial activity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.