HYPERSENSITIVE RESPONSE INDUCED RESISTANCE IN PLANTS BY SEEDTREATMENT

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of imparting pathogen resistance t o plants. This involves applying a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein in a non-infectious form to a plant seed und er conditions where the polypeptide or protein contacts cells of the plant seed. The present invention is also directed to a pathogen resistance imparting plant seed. Alternatively, transgenic plant seeds containing a DNA molecule encoding a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein can be planted in soil and a plant can be propagated from the planted seed under conditions effective to impart pathog en resistance to the plant.