METHODS OF ENHANCING THE RESISTANCE OF PLANTS TO BACTERIAL PATHOGENS BY TRANSFORMING PLANTS WITH A POLYNUCLEOTIDE CONSTRUCT COMPRISING A PROMOTER AND A NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE THAT ENCODES AN EF-Tu RECEPTOR
593118 Disclosed is a method for enhancing the resistance of a plant to at least one eubacterial pathogen, said method comprising the steps of: Transforming a plant cell with a polynucleotide construct comprising a promoter and a nucleotide sequence that encodes an EF-Tu receptor (EFR), wherein said promoter is operably linked to said nucleotide sequence and said promoter is capable of driving expression of said nucleotide sequence in a plant cell and Regenerating a transformed plant from said transformed plant cell wherein said transformed plant has enhanced resistance to at least one eubacterial pathogen. Further disclosed is a plant comprising a stably incorporated in it genome a polynucleotide construct comprising a promoter and a nucleotide sequence that encodes an EFR, wherein said promoter is operable linked to said nucleotide sequence and said promoter is capable of driving expression of said nucleotide sequence in a plant cell, wherein said transformed plant has enhanced resistance to at least one bacterial pathogen when compared to a wild-type plant.
