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We have transferred a chimeric stilbene synthase (sts)-gene into wheat, the most important human food crop. Stilbene synthases are producing stilbene-type phytoalexins like resveratrol, a substance with fungicidal potential (Langcake, Pryce, 1976). Sts-gmes from groundnut (Hain et al., 1990) and grapevine (Hain et al., 1993) have already been transferred to other plants. Tolerance against fungal infections was improved in tobacco (Hain et al., 1993) and possibly in rice (Stark-Lorenzen et al., 1997). In tobacco and petunia, overexpression of sts-genes led to a substrate competition between stilbene and chalkon synthases causing male sterility (Fischer et al., 1997).
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Fettig, S., Hess, D. (1999). Expression of a Chimeric Grapevine Stilbene Synthase Gene in Stable Wheat Transformants. In: Altman, A., Ziv, M., Izhar, S. (eds) Plant Biotechnology and In Vitro Biology in the 21st Century. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4661-6_31
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