CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, Montreux,1997, AP56
Transformation of tobacco with an elicitor-encoding gene under the control of an inducible promoteur
INRA, Antibes, France
A potentially powerful method to protect tobacco against black shank consists in the production of elicitins (proteinaceous elicitors) in plants. As elicitins are monomeric proteins, and the gene encoding the elicitin cryptogein was recently cloned...