Control of Fusarium oxysporum infection in transgenic tobacco carrying oxalate descarboxilase gene
| Autor: | Vinicius Carius de Souza, Francisco J. L. Aragão, Natalia dos Anjos Pinto, Danielle Luciana Aurora Soares do Amaral, Marcelo de Oliveira Santos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
biology Transgene fungi food and beverages Plant Science Fungus Genetically modified crops biology.organism_classification General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Microbiology Genetically modified organism 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Fusarium oxysporum Agronomy and Crop Science Gene Pathogen Food Science Flammulina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology. :079-083 |
| ISSN: | 2455-7005 |
| Popis: | Fusarium oxysporum is a widespread necrotrophic plant pathogen. Its infection affects several crop plants such as potato, tomato, cotton, banana, coffee, strawberry and sugarcane. The fungus produces oxalic acid, which triggers apoptosis in plants by a reactive oxygen species-dependent mechanism. Tobacco plants were genetically modified to express a gene coding for the enzyme oxalate descarboxilase (oxdc), isolated from Flammulina velutipes. The transgenic plants showed tolerance to Fusarium oxysporum. Even under lower expression of the gene, plants were able to control F. oxysporum infection. Thus, we demonstrated that the expression of the oxdc gene is a good alternative for the development of F. oxysporum resistant crops. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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