metabolic engineering

Lesion mimic mutants (LMMs) constitutively and spontaneously display genetic lesions (necrotic spots of dead cells) in the absence of pathogenic infection, identical to disease-caused lesions due to likeness between the non-pathogenic and pathogenic syndromes associated with hypersensitive response and cell death. The broad-spectrum, nonrace-specific resistance expressed by these mutants to fungal and bacterial rice pathogens […]