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

Masashi Ugaki

Hiroshi Tanaka

Toshiaki Kayano

Yuko Ohashi

Ichiro Mitsuhara

Masahiro Ohshima

Fumio Shiobara

Naoto Shibuya

Haruko Onodera

Kazuko Ono

Akemi Tagiri

Yaeko Nishizawa

Shigeo Nakamura

Takayoshi Iwai

Ryoso Honkura

Hirohiko Hirochika

There is provided antransformation method for monocotyledons, comprising a step of infecting an intact seed.

Ultra-fast transformation technique for monocotyledons

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

Masashi Ugaki