Testing transgenic black pepper for resistance to viruses
Crop(s)
Black Pepper
Start year
2011
Closed
End year
2014
Investigators
Name
Man-months
A Ishwara Bhat
7
D Prasath
4
Objectives
Production of transgenic black pepper using coat protein gene of Cucumber mosaic
virus and portion of ORF III of Piper yellow mottle virus as transgene.
Testing of transgenic black pepper lines for viral resistance in the green house.