The recombinant pea defensin Drr230a is active against impacting soybean and cotton pathogenic fungi from the genera Fusarium, Colletotrichum and Phakopsora

Overexpression of a Defensin Enhances Resistance to a Fruit-Specific Anthracnose Fungus in Pepper

(2014) Hyo-Hyoun Seo et al.   PLoS One

Plant innate immunity: An updated insight into defense mechanism

(2013) Mehanathan Muthamilarasan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Chemical warfare or modulators of defence responses – the function of secondary metabolites in plant immunity

(2012) Paweł Bednarek   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Phytoalexins in defense against pathogens

(2011) Ishita Ahuja et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

When and how to kill a plant cell: Infection strategies of plant pathogenic fungi

(2010) Ralf Horbach et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

NmDef02, a novel antimicrobial gene isolated from Nicotiana megalosiphon confers high-level pathogen resistance under greenhouse and field conditions

(2010) Roxana Portieles et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Production of recombinant proteins by microbes and higher organisms

(2009) Arnold L. Demain et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Expression of BrD1, a plant defensin from Brassica rapa, confers resistance against brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) in transgenic rices

(2009) Man-Soo Choi et al.   MOLECULES AND CELLS

PDC1, a corn defensin peptide expressed in Escherichia coli and Pichia pastoris inhibits growth of Fusarium graminearum

(2009) Pragya Kant et al.   PEPTIDES

Plant defensins—Prospects for the biological functions and biotechnological properties

(2009) André de Oliveira Carvalho et al.   PEPTIDES

Expression of a plant defensin in rice confers resistance to fungal phytopathogens

(2009) Sanjay Jha et al.   TRANSGENIC RESEARCH

Prokaryotic expression of a constitutively expressed Tephrosia villosa defensin and its potent antifungal activity

(2008) S. Vijayan et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Transgenic tobacco and peanut plants expressing a mustard defensin show resistance to fungal pathogens

(2008) T. Swathi Anuradha et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Expression and functional characterization of the plant antimicrobial snakin-1 and defensin recombinant proteins

(2008) Natalia Kovalskaya et al.   PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION

Novel insights on the mechanism of action of α-amylase inhibitors from the plant defensin family

(2008) Patrícia B. Pelegrini et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS