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Science 16 March 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5511, p. 2070
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5511.2070
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INNATE IMMUNITY:
Engineering Protection for Plants

Trisha Gura

Researchers are trying to use antimicrobial peptides originally found in insects and other animals (see main text) to boost plants' ability to resist infectious bacteria and fungi. Current targets include the potato blight fungus, which caused the great Irish famine of the mid-1800s, and the bacterium that causes soft rot in stored potatoes.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Production of an Engineered Killer Peptide in Nicotiana benthamiana by Using a Potato virus X Expression System.
M. Donini, C. Lico, S. Baschieri, S. Conti, W. Magliani, L. Polonelli, and E. Benvenuto (2005)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 71, 6360-6367
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