Overexpression of 42 kDa chitinase genes from Trichoderma asperellum SH16 in peanut (Arachis hypogaea)

Growth and development of transgenic peanut (Arachis hypogaea) lines containing chitinase 42 kDa gene from Trichoderma asperellum SH16

“…By using these technologies, the different origins derived chitinase genes have been successfully transformed into different types of plants such as rice (Lin et al 1995), tobacco (Zhu et al 1994), cucumber (Kishimotoiet al 2002, Italian ryegrass I (Takahashi et al 2005), banana (Sreeramanan et al 2009), cotton (Ganesan et al 2009), and peanut I (Chu et al 2008(Chu et al , 2013 and developed the ability of fungal resistance in these crops. Though various attempts were made to enhance the fungal resistance in groundnut by utilizing tobacco chitinase (Rohini and Rao 2001), barley oxalate oxidase (Livingstone et al 2005), mustard of defensin (Anuradha et al 2008) and β-1,3-glucanase from tobacco (Sundaresha et al 2009), there are currently no reports regarding the usage of 42 kDa chitinase genes from Trichoderma asperellum SH16, except for those published by Loc et al (2022), Hoa et al (2022a and Tue et al (2022). The antifungal activity of peanutcontaining 42 kDa chitinase genes (Hoa et al 2022b) and two genes (syncod Chi42-1 and syncod Chi42-2) were codons optimized for expression in the plant from the Chi42 gene (Luong et al 2021) were reported in these two types of research.…”