Abstract Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is the most important staple food for more than
300 million people in Africa, and anthracnose disease caused by Colletotrichum …

The possibility of controlling Fusarium wilt—caused by Fusarium oxysporum sp. cubensec
(race 4)—was investigated by genetic engineering of banana plants for constitutive …

Background: Canola is an agro-economically oilseed crop. Yield loss due to fungal disease
of stem rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a serious problem in canola cultivation …

We report here the development of transgenic tobacco plants with thaumatin gene of
Thaumatococcus daniellii under the control of a strong constitutive promoter-CaMV 35S …

Among the fungal diseases, sheath blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn is one of the
most important wide spread diseases found in all the rice plants (Oryza sativa) growing …

Two transgenic carrot lines (T-33 and T-47) were developed through Agrobacterium-
mediated transformation. Both lines constitutively expressed a rice thaumatin-like protein …

Abstract Thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs), a class of pathogenesis related proteins are
induced in response to pathogens and exhibit antifungal property when overexpressed in …

A cDNA encoding thaumatin-like protein (TLP) from rice was cloned into the binary vector
pMON410 under the control of the CaMV 35S promoter for Agrobacterium-mediated …

Plant chitinases are strong antifungal enzymes, and their genes can be utilized to engineer
crop plants, including potatoes, with tolerance against fungal pathogens. The purified …

Abstract Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is an important food and fodder crop.
Fungal diseases such as anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum sublineolum reduce …