%R 10.1016/0378-4290(95)00061-5 %J Field Crops Research %L upm5856 %N 1-3 %P 79-84 %V 45 %A Francisco García Olmedo %A Antonio Molina Fernández %A Ana Segura %A Manuel Moreno %A Atilio Castagnaro %A Elena Titarenko %A Pablo Rodriguez Palenzuela %A Manuel Piñeiro Galvin %A Isabel Diaz Rodriguez %I Elsevier %T Engineering plants against pathogens: A general strategy %K Defence proteins; Hordeum vulgare; Plant diseases; Resistance; disease; Transgenic plants %D 1996 %X A general strategy to identify defense proteins and genes and to use them in transgenic plants to engineer enhanced resistance against pathogens is illustrated with specific experimental examples. A combinatorial model for the expression of defense genes in response to different pathogens is discussed.