CHIMERIC GENE FOR HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION THAT ENCODES PEPTIDES WITH ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY

摘要

A chimeric nucleotide sequence is provided encoding peptides with antimicrobial activity to be expressed in plants, plant cells or transformed plant material that will produce the peptide sequences derived from SEQ ID No. 1 and SEQ ID No. 6. A method is also provided for conferring resistance or tolerance to plant pathogenic fungi or bacteria on a plant using suitable transfer vectors, which contain the coding sequence for the peptides with antimicrobial activity.