Transgenic plants with divergent SCaM4 or SCaM5 gene to achieve multiple disease resistance

摘要

In accordance with the present invention, provided are transgenic plants and plant cells thereof which have been transformed with the soybean calmodulin isoform (SCaM) genes to exhibit greatly enhanced resistance to a wide spectrum of plant pathogens. The present invention also provides the expression vector containing SCaM genes and to host cell into which said genes in the expression vector has been introduced to plant pathogens-resistant plants. Transgenic plants expressing a heterologous SCaM show increased resistance to fungi, bacteria and viruses which normally infect the plants.