The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications
Fungal pathogens induce a variety of diseases in both plants and post-harvest food crops, resulting in significant crop losses for the agricultural industry. Although the usage of chemical-based fungicides is the most common way to control these diseases, they damage the environment, have the potent...
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| description | Fungal pathogens induce a variety of diseases in both plants and post-harvest food crops, resulting in significant crop losses for the agricultural industry. Although the usage of chemical-based fungicides is the most common way to control these diseases, they damage the environment, have the potential to harm human and animal life, and may lead to resistant fungal strains. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for diverse and effective agricultural fungicides that are environmentally- and eco-friendly. Plants have evolved various mechanisms in their innate immune system to defend against fungal pathogens, including soluble proteins secreted from plants with antifungal activities. These proteins can inhibit fungal growth and infection through a variety of mechanisms while exhibiting diverse functionality in addition to antifungal activity. In this mini review, we summarize and discuss the potential of using plant antifungal proteins for future agricultural applications from the perspective of bioengineering and biotechnology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9005ca05276b462689a72f950cd579202022-12-22T04:40:21ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology2405-805X2022-12-017410751083The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applicationsTiffany Chiu0Theo Poucet1Yanran Li2Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics, And Bioinformatics, 1140 Batchelor Hall, University of California Riverside, California, 92521, USADepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USADepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA; Corresponding author.Fungal pathogens induce a variety of diseases in both plants and post-harvest food crops, resulting in significant crop losses for the agricultural industry. Although the usage of chemical-based fungicides is the most common way to control these diseases, they damage the environment, have the potential to harm human and animal life, and may lead to resistant fungal strains. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for diverse and effective agricultural fungicides that are environmentally- and eco-friendly. Plants have evolved various mechanisms in their innate immune system to defend against fungal pathogens, including soluble proteins secreted from plants with antifungal activities. These proteins can inhibit fungal growth and infection through a variety of mechanisms while exhibiting diverse functionality in addition to antifungal activity. In this mini review, we summarize and discuss the potential of using plant antifungal proteins for future agricultural applications from the perspective of bioengineering and biotechnology.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405805X22000758 |
| spellingShingle | Tiffany Chiu Theo Poucet Yanran Li The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology |
| title | The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications |
| title_full | The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications |
| title_fullStr | The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications |
| title_short | The potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications |
| title_sort | potential of plant proteins as antifungal agents for agricultural applications |
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