<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Transgenic approaches for improving fungal disease resistance in groundnut</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Prasad</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">P</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Bhatnagar-Mathur</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M L</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Narasu</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">F</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Waliyar</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Sharma</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Fungal diseases in groundnut are the most significant limiting factor causing more than 50%&#13;
yield losses throughout the world. Genetic enhancement in groundnut through conventional breeding&#13;
and chemical control has yielded only limited success. More recently, genetic transformation has led&#13;
to possibility of transforming crops for increased resistance to fungal diseases. This review summarizes&#13;
the advances of genetic engineering applied for improvement of groundnut disease resistance against&#13;
fungal pathogens. Fungal resistant transgene of plant, bacterial or fungal origin can be introduced into&#13;
groundnut for enhanced disease resistance. Progress in engineering fungal disease resistance in&#13;
transgenic ground nut has been accomplished through expression of PR proteins, antifungal proteins,&#13;
antimicrobial proteins, ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIP) and phytoalexins.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Groundnut</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2011</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>