DEVELOPMENT OF FUNGAL RESISTANT CROPS BY HIGS (HOST-INDUCED GENE SILENCING) MEDIATED INHIBITION OF GPI-ANCHORED CELL WALL PROTEIN SYNTHESIS

摘要

The present invention is directed to a transgenic plant or a part thereof comprising a DNA capable of expressing an inhibitory nucleic acid molecule capable of inhibiting the expression of a gene involved in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor biosynthesis pathway in a fungus, to such DNA, to the inhibitory nucleic acid molecule, to a vector comprising the DNA, to methods of producing the plant, of conferring fungal resistance to the plant, or of inhibiting the expression of a gene involved in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor biosynthesis pathway, to the use of the DNA for inactivating a fungus, for protecting a plant against a fungus, or for inhibiting the expression of a gene involved in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor biosynthesis pathway and to a composition comprising the DNA, vector or a dsRNA capable of inhibiting the expression of a gene involved in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor biosynthesis pathway in a fungus.