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Mycotoxin contamination is a major problem in food and feed crops such as corn, cotton, peanut and tree nuts. We are developing transgenic cottons that resist the aflatoxigenic fungus, Aspergillus flavus. Crop losses due to pathogens result in economic plus food and feed safety concerns. Current biotechnology-related approaches to improve disease resistance in plants have been reviewed recently (Ouchi, 2001; Punja, 2001; Rajasekaran et al., 2002). We provide below two examples from our laboratory, which utilize novel gene constructs that impart disease resistance to transgenic tobacco and cotton.
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Rajasekaran, K., Jacks, T.J., Cary, J.W., Cleveland, T.E. (2003). Disease Resistant Transgenic Cotton to Prevent Preharvest Aflatoxin Contamination. In: Vasil, I.K. (eds) Plant Biotechnology 2002 and Beyond. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2679-5_24
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