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Crop Genetic Engineering: An Approach to Improve Fungal Resistance in Plant System

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Fungal disease in crop plants from the past two decades has seen to be increasing which is recognized as a serious threat to food security worldwide. It is difficult for plant to survive under these unfavorable conditions which cause an unprecedented number of fungal and fungal-like diseases which are the most common kind of plant disease. Various approaches such as use of chemical pesticides and other synthetic molecules have been used to control the fungal infections in crop plants. Different transgenic plants have been developed by introducing various genes responsible for resistance in opposition to fungal pathogens. Genes of the enzymes responsible for cell wall degradation are frequently applied to generate transgenic plants for fungal resistance. This chapter mainly emphasizes on how transgenic approach helps to confer plant resistance toward fungal diseases.

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Acknowledgments

Saquib Mahmood gratefully acknowledges the Department of Biotechnology for financial supports and Dr. Nita Lakra also acknowledge UGC for providing Dr. D.S. Kothari fellowship and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.

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    Saquib Mahmood, Nita Lakra & Khalid Anwar

  2. Department of Biosciences, College of Arts, Science and Humanities, Mody University, Lakshmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan, India

    Avinash Marwal

  3. Department of Plant Science, School of Biological Sciences, RST Campus, Central University of Kerala, Nileshwar, Kerala, India

    N. M. Sudheep

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Mahmood, S., Lakra, N., Marwal, A., Sudheep, N.M., Anwar, K. (2017). Crop Genetic Engineering: An Approach to Improve Fungal Resistance in Plant System. In: Singh, D., Singh, H., Prabha, R. (eds) Plant-Microbe Interactions in Agro-Ecological Perspectives. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6593-4_23

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