Method for protecting plants from disease and infestation by gene insertion, and vectors and plant cells containing said genes

摘要

A method of inhibiting pathogenic conditions of plants including viral, bacterial, and fungal infections and insect infestations by expressing into the plant genome genes encoding for a polypeptide inhibitor or inhibitor precursor of the pathogenic condition which inhibitor or precursor is selected from complementary oligonucleotides for blocking viral transcription or translation produced invivo, one or more proteins derived from the humoral response to bacterial infection of the Hyalophora, an antifungal plasmid or a chitin integument disruption chitinase enzyme. Novel microbes, polypeptides, and compositions containing amino acid sequences are disclosed.