Publications by authors named "Gustavo Trajano de Moura"

Phytocystatins are a family of plant cysteine-protease inhibitors of great interest due to their biotechnological application in culture improvement. It was shown that their expression in plants increases resistance to herbivory by insects and improves tolerance to both biotic and abiotic stress factors. In this work, owing to the economical relevance of the source organism, a phytocystatin from hop (Humulus lupulus), Hop1, was produced by heterologous expression in E.

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