KILLING AND INHIBITING MICROORGANISMS, PARTICULARLY IN PLANTS, USING SELECTED PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES, TRANSFORMING PLANTS AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS OF THESE PEPTIDES

摘要

A selected group of proteins has been found to have antimicrobial properties. In a preferred embodiment, plant resistance to diseases caused by plant pathogens which are susceptible to these proteins is produced by inserting into the cells of a plant a gene whose expression causes production a selected protein in antimicrobial amounts.