PLANT CELL DEATH SYSTEM

This invention seeks to provide means by which transgenic plants harbour within their genome a chimaeric gene which when expressed produces a protein having a cytotoxic effect. Cytoxicity is achieved by way of a protein or part thereof capable of blocking cellular protein synthesis, such as a maize...

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Hauptverfasser: MCPHERSON, MICHAEL JOHN, NEELAM, ANIL, ATKINSON, HOWARD JOHN, THOMAS, CHRISTOPHER JOHN ROBERT
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Zusammenfassung:This invention seeks to provide means by which transgenic plants harbour within their genome a chimaeric gene which when expressed produces a protein having a cytotoxic effect. Cytoxicity is achieved by way of a protein or part thereof capable of blocking cellular protein synthesis, such as a maize ribosome inactivating protein or part thereof. The chimaeric gene may comprise a promoter operably linked to a sequence encoding a protein capable of blocking cellular protein synthesis such that the promoter is inducible at and/or adjacent to a target site.