OVERPRODUCTION OF JASMONIC ACID IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS

摘要

The present invention relates to methods for obtaining a transgenic plant that overproduces jasmonic acid, and optionally OPDA, a jasmonic acid precursor. Said methods include transforming the plant using a nucleic acid encoding ORA47. The accumulation of jasmonic acid confers in particular to the transformed plant an improved resistance to pathogenic agents. The transgenic plants obtained may also be used for the production of pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites whose synthesis is induced by jasmonates.