Resistance to an Herbivore Through Engineered Cyanogenic Glucoside Synthesis
- 7 September 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 293 (5536) , 1826-1828
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1062249
Abstract
The entire pathway for synthesis of the tyrosine-derived cyanogenic glucoside dhurrin has been transferred from Sorghum bicolor to Arabidopsis thaliana . Here, we document that genetically engineered plants are able to synthesize and store large amounts of new natural products. The presence of dhurrin in the transgenic A. thaliana plants confers resistance to the flea beetle Phyllotreta nemorum , which is a natural pest of other members of the crucifer group, demonstrating the potential utility of cyanogenic glucosides in plant defense.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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