Expression of a bacterial chitosanase in rice plants improves disease resistance to the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Agriculture & Biology

• chitosanase 100%
• plant disease resistance 87%
• Magnaporthe oryzae 82%
• blast disease 79%
• chitosan 49%
• rice 43%
• fungi 39%
• disease resistance 31%
• infection 26%
• Bacillus circulans 23%
• degradation 20%
• apoplast 19%
• pathogens 19%
• cell wall components 18%
• chitin 16%
• enzymes 14%
• hydrogen peroxide 14%
• genetically modified organisms 12%
• cell walls 12%
• cells 10%
• bacteria 9%
• genes 5%