Progress towards Incorporation of Antimicrobial Peptides for Disease Resistance in Citrus
Antimicrobial peptides play important roles in the innate immune response and can be found to occur in all classes of life, including humans. These peptides are usually small proteins and have an ability to associate with bacterial cell membranes. Antimicrobial peptides are also characterized by their broad spectrum antibiotic property. Citrus canker and Huanglongbing (HLB) are the two major diseases threatening the global citrus industry. All commercial grapefruit, sweet orange and tangerine cultivars are susceptible to these diseases, and it is difficult to create tolerant cultivars via conventional breeding. Incorporation of one or more genes encoding for antimicrobial peptides into the citrus genome via genetic engineering could potentially result in development of cultivars resistant to these diseases, without modifying the varietal fidelity.
Agrobacterium Antimicrobial Canker Citrus transformation Greening Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Protoplast Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus Xanthomonas citri ssp.citri
M. Dutt A. Omar V. Orbovic G. Barthe J. W. Grosser
Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida/IFAS, 700 Experiment Station Road, Lake Alfred, FL 33850 U. S. A
国际会议
11th International Citrus Congress(第11届国际柑橘大会)
武汉
英文
258-264
2008-10-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）