METHOD FOR INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE AND PEST RESISTANCE INTO PLANTS AND NOVEL GENES INCORPORATED INTO PLANTS WHICH CODE THEREFOR

摘要

A method of inhibiting pathogenic conditions of plants including viral, bacterial, and fungal infections and insect infestations by expressing into the plant genome genes encoding for a polypeptide inhibitor or inhibitor precursor of the pathogenic condition which inhibitor or precursor is selected from complementary oligonucleotides for blocking viral transcription or translation produced in vivo, one or more proteins derived from the humoral response to bacterial infection of the Hyalophora, an antifungal plasmid or a chitin integument disruption chitinase enzyme. Novel microbes, polypeptides, and compositions containing amino acid sequences are disclosed.