Whereas most mycoviruses lead'secret lives', some reduce the ability of their fungal hosts to
cause disease in plants. This property, known as hypovirulence, has attracted attention …

The continual need to increase food production necessitates the development and
application of novel biotechnologies to enable the provision of improved crop varieties in a …

Protease inhibitors (PIs) are regulatory proteins found in numerous animal tissues and
fluids, plants, and microorganisms that reduce and inhibit the exacerbated and uncontrolled …

Plant proteinase inhibitors (PIs), which play a potent defensive role against predators and
pathogens, are natural, defense-related proteins often present in seeds and induced in …

Genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) have been under development for more than 20
years while GE crops have been grown commercially during the last decade. During this …

Worldwide, there are more than 1,000 species belonging to the Fagaceae. All Fagaceae
species are woody plants and are spread throughout the northern hemisphere, from the …

Protease inhibitors in legumes are one of the most promising weapons that confer
resistance against insects by inhibiting proteases present in the gut of insect larvae. In the …

In the present study, 11 varieties of Dolichos biflorus exhibited both protease inhibitor
activities as well as in vitro inhibitory activity against Helicoverpa armigera gut protease. A …

Chestnut blight is a stem‐girdling disease of Castanea caused by the fungal pathogen
Cryphonectria parasitica. Chestnut blight affects all Castanea species to some degree. In …

Insects cause heavy damage to cultivated crop plants. Production of proteinaceous
inhibitors that interfere with the digestive biochemistry of insect pests is one of the naturally …