method for increasing phacosporacea resistance in plants and / or plant cells, recombinant vector construct, transgenic plant, part of transgenic plnata or transgenic plant cell, method for producing a transgenic plant that has increased resistance against phacosperacea and use of the construct recombinant vector
The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the family Phacosporaceae in transgenic plants and/or plant cells. In these plants, the ethylene signaling pathway and/or activity of the ethylene signaling compounds is changed. This is achieved by priming the ethylene signaling pathway in these plants in comparison to wild type plants and/or wild type plant cells. Depending on the activating or inhibitory function of a particular signaling compound overexpression or knock-down of the cognate gene might be used.
