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SUBMITTER: Dutt M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4580634 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dutt Manjul M Barthe Gary G Irey Michael M Grosser Jude J
PloS one 20150923 9
Commercial sweet orange cultivars lack resistance to Huanglongbing (HLB), a serious phloem limited bacterial disease that is usually fatal. In order to develop sustained disease resistance to HLB, transgenic sweet orange cultivars 'Hamlin' and 'Valencia' expressing an Arabidopsis thaliana NPR1 gene under the control of a constitutive CaMV 35S promoter or a phloem specific Arabidopsis SUC2 (AtSUC2) promoter were produced. Overexpression of AtNPR1 resulted in trees with normal phenotypes that exhi ...[more]