Does engineering enhanced broad-spectrum disease resistance in a legume cause harmful effects to beneficial symbionts?

Manipulation of a plant's own induced defence response pathways, leading to enhanced broad-spectrum disease resistance, offers exciting strategies for genetically modifying plants for disease control in the field. Two such strategies are overexpression of NONEXPRESSOR OF PR (NPRl), a. key regul...

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Main Author: Higgins, Gillian Sarah
Published: University of York 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485095