Enhanced Methanol Production in Plants Provides Broad Spectrum Insect Resistance

Plants naturally emit methanol as volatile organic compound. Methanol is toxic to insect pests; but the quantity produced by most of the plants is not enough to protect them against invading insect pests. In the present study, we demonstrated that the over-expression of pectin methylesterase, derive...

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Autores principales: Dixit, Sameer, Upadhyay, Santosh Kumar, Singh, Harpal, Sidhu, Om Prakash, Verma, Praveen Chandra, K, Chandrashekar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079664

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079664

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