Director General of National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Ichiro Mitsuhara

Yuko Ohashi

Masahiro Ohshima

Seiichi Toki

Ayako Yokoi

Masashi Ugaki

Yuki Yanagawa

Kasumi Yamada

Kamal A Malik

Shigeo Nakamura

Takayoshi Iwai

Ryoso Honkura

Hirohiko Hirochika

Hiroaki Kawano

Yosuke Watanabe

Tomohiro Kobayashi

The present inventors found that the efficiency of introducing a protein into a plant dramatically increases as compared with conventional methods for cultivating a bacteria-infected plant as it is when the protein of interest is expressed with bacteria having the type III secretion system, the bacteria are brought into contact with the plant, and then the infected tissues are cultured under bacteriostatic conditions for a certain period of time.

Method for producing genome edited plant

The present invention is drawn to a method of conferring resistance to pathogenic fungi on a plant by transformation with a nucleic acid encoding Sarcotoxin 1a operatively linked to a signal peptide, and optionally linked via the hinge region of tobacco chitinase to a plant peptide, and plants thereby obtained.

Pathogen-resistant plants transformed with a DNA encoding sarcotoxin 1A linked to a signal peptide and a method for production thereof

The present invention provides a stress resistant plant in which a cell death suppressing gene is introduced.

Stress resistant plant in which cell death suppressing gene is introduced and method for producing the same

A plant exhibiting resistance to at least one disease is provided. The plant includes an expression cassette including a thionin gene from,, which is capable of expressing the thionin protein. A method for producing the plant is also provided. The method includes the steps of constructing an expression vector containing an expression cassette including a thionin from,gene, which is capable of expressing the thionin protein, transforming a plant cell with the expression vector, and regenerating a plant from the transformed plant cell. The plant exhibits resistance to at least one disease such as a disease caused by a plant pathogenic bacterium (e.g., a bacterium causing bacterial leaf blight of rice or a bacterium causing bacterial seedling blight of rice) or a plant pathogenic filamentous fungus (e.g., a fungus causing late blight of potato). A seed obtained from the above disease resistant plant is also provided.

Method for producing disease resistant plant with thionin gene from Avena sativa

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Tsukuba, Japan

Ichiro Mitsuhara