TY - GEN N2 - Many plants possess antimicrobial peptides (AMP) constitutively expressed or induced after infection. These families of peptides include four cysteine-type peptides: hevein and knottin-type peptides, lipid transfer proteins, plant defensins and thionins. Plant AMP are basic, cystein-rich peptides with molecular masses of approximately 5 kDa. They are mainly identified in perypheral cell layer of plants. These peptides may have an important role to play in the protection of plants from microbial infection, and they might prove to be useful tools for the genetic engineering of fungal and other patogen resistance in transgenic plants. Plant defensins family show very limited sequence conservation. L1 - http://rcin.org.pl/Content/87033/PDF/POZN271_113394_biotechnologia-2007-no2-nawrot.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Plant defensins PY - 2007 IS - 2 EP - 41 KW - biotechnology A1 - Nawrot, Robert A1 - Goździcka-Józefiak, Anna PB - Committee on Biotechnology PAS PB - Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS VL - 77 SP - 27 T1 - Plant defensins UR - http://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/87033 ER -