Several diseases caused by viruses, bacteria and fungi affect plant crops, resulting in losses
and decreasing the quality and safety of agricultural products. Plant disease control relies …

All organisms need protection against microorganisms, eg bacteria, viruses and fungi. For
many years, attention has been focused on adaptive immunity as the main antimicrobial …

We propose a conceptual framework for restoration of threatened plant species that
encourages integration of technological, ecological, and social spheres. A sphere …

Here we describe a strategy for engineering transgenic plants with broad-spectrum
resistance to bacterial and fungal phytopathogens. We expressed a synthetic gene …

Peptides and small proteins exhibiting antimicrobial activity have been isolated from many
organisms ranging from insects to humans, including plants. Their role in defense is …

Small antimicrobial peptides are excellent candidates for inclusion in self‐processing
proteins that could be used to confer pathogen resistance in transgenic plants. Antimicrobial …

Cecropins are naturally occurring peptides that play an important role in the immune
response of insects. Cecropin A-derived and cecropin A-melittin hybrid peptides, all smaller …

Bacteria, plants, and higher and lower animals have evolved an innate immune system as a
first line of defense against microbial invasion. Some of these organisms produce …

American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a classic example of a native keystone species that
was nearly eradicated by an introduced fungal pathogen. This report describes progress …

An invasive fungal pathogen has reduced the American chestnut (Castanea dentata), once
a keystone tree species within its natural range in the eastern United States and Canada, to …