Tomato-Thaumatin-like Protein Genes and Confer Resistance to Five Soil-Borne Diseases by Enhancing β-1,3-Glucanase Activity.

Although thaumatin-like proteins () are involved in resistance to a variety of fungal diseases, whether the 5 and 6 genes in tomato plants () confer resistance to the pathogenesis of soil-borne diseases has not been demonstrated. In this study, five soil-borne diseases (fungal pathogens: , , and ; bacterial pathogens: subsp. and ) were used to infect susceptible "No.

Gene silencing, knockout and over-expression of a transcription factor ABORTED MICROSPORES (SlAMS) strongly affects pollen viability in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).

Background: The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is an economically valuable crop grown worldwide. Because the use of sterile males reduces the cost of F1 seed production, the innovation of male sterility is of great significance for tomato breeding.

Ethylene-Inducible AP2/ERF Transcription Factor Involved in the Capsaicinoid Biosynthesis in .

Ethylene is very important in the process of plant development and regulates the biosynthesis of many secondary metabolites. In these regulatory mechanisms, transcription factors (TFs) that mediate ethylene signals play a very important role. Capsaicinoids (CAPs) are only synthesized and accumulated in species, causing their fruit to have a special pungent taste, which can protect against attack from herbivores and pathogens.

[Analysis of genetic structure of Magnaporthe grisea in the fields of different rice varieties].

The DNA of 251 Magnaporthe grisea isolates from Shiping County, which originated from monoculture and mixture fields, was extracted and amplified by rep-PCR which primer was from palindromes Pot2 of Magnaporthe grisea. The result showed that all isolates were amplified 9-17 DNA bands, the size was about from 400 bp to 23 kb, but mainly between 5-10 kb. 65% bands were polymorphism bands, and 35% were the same bands.