A young biochemist at La Trobe University has demonstrated that a protein from ornamental tobacco is able to break through cell walls and kill a fungal cell that causes major disease and crop losses in plants worldwide. The discovery, which was published in May in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, will be used by the recently floated biotech company Hexima Ltd in its bid to design transgenic crops that are resistant to fungal attack. Pathogenic fungi reduce the yield of Australia's cotton crop and in some regions the soil which is infected cannot be used to grow cotton. Hexima Ltd has developed transgenic cotton that has shown promising results in field trials.

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20080108-17731.html

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