title: Field tolerance to fungal pathogens of Brassica napus constitutively expressing a chimeric chitinase gene.
abstract: Constitutive overexpression of a protein involved in plant defense mechanisms to disease is one of the strategies proposed to increase plant tolerance to fungal pathogens. A hybrid endochitinase gene under a constitutive promoter was introduced by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation into a winter-type oilseed rape (Brassica napus var. oleifera) inbred line. Progeny from transformed plants was challenged using three different fungal pathogens (Cylindrosporium concentricum, Phoma lingam, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) in field trials at two different geographical locations. These plants exhibited an increased tolerance to disease as compared with the nontransgenic parental plants.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Phytotechnologie, Sanofi Recherche, Centre de Labège, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grison
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Grezes-Besset
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lucante
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Leguay
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toppan
mesh_terms: D001203:Ascomycota / Q000472:pathogenicity; D001709:Biotechnology; D001937:Brassica / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology*; D002688:Chitinases / Q000235:genetics*; D005658:Fungi / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D015870:Gene Expression; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000235:genetics; D014170:Transformation, Genetic
chemical_list: D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D002688:Chitinases