METHODS FOR INCREASING THE RESISTANCE IN PLANTS TO BIOTROPIC FUNGI

摘要

The present invention relates to methods for generating or increasing resistance in a plant or a part of a plant to at least one biotrophic pathogen by increasing the amount of protein or function of at least one Bax inhibitor 1 (BI-1) protein in at least one part of the plant. The invention additionally relates to polypeptide and nucleic acid sequences which code for a BI-1 protein, and expression cassettes, vectors and organisms which include such sequences or such a protein.