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While for many decades fundamental research on sedentary nematode-plant parasitism encompassed mainly the ultrastructural and physiological aspects of the interaction, more recently also the area of molecular biology has started to be explored. Although the puzzle of the underlying gene regulation is far from complete, the available knowledge already enables us to evaluate the effectiveness of several envisaged genetic engineering strategies to obtain crops with nematode-resistant properties. Both antifeeding structure and antinematode approaches are considered and involve a gene complex in which a specific nematode-inducible promoter is responsible for the local production of a selected gene product aimed at inhibiting proper feeding cell and/or nematode development. Effective nematode control will greatly depend on the choice of both components in such a complex. To identify nematode-inducible plant-regulatory sequences, we have used the model system Arabidopsis thaliana. We report here on several transgenic lines tagged in promising regulatory sequences and discuss their potential in the scope of engineering nematode resistance into plants.
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Barthels, N., Karimi, M., Vercauteren, I., Van Montagu, M., Gheysen, G. (1999). Integration of nematode-responsive regulatory sequences from Arabidopsis thaliana into nematode control strategies. In: Mugnozza, G.T.S., Porceddu, E., Pagnotta, M.A. (eds) Genetics and Breeding for Crop Quality and Resistance. Developments in Plant Breeding, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4475-9_23
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