Sarah Bronwen Rees

TL;DR: Five antifungal proteins were isolated and shown to be homologous to plant defensins previously characterised from radish seeds and γ‐thionins from Poaceae seeds, and can be divided into two classes based on the spectrum of their antimicriobial activity and the morphological distortions they induce on fungi.

TL;DR: Ac-AMP1 and Ac-AMP2 inhibit the growth of different plant pathogenic fungi at much lower doses than other known antifungal chitin-binding proteins and show some activity on Gram-positive bacteria.

TL;DR: Four closely related peptides were isolated from seed of Impatiens balsamina and were shown to be inhibitory to the growth of a range of fungi and bacteria, while not being cytotoxic to cultured human cells.

TL;DR: Structural studies of Ib-AMP1, a small antimicrobial peptide derived from the seeds of Impatiens balsamina, show that the peptide has two hydrophilic patches which are at opposite ends of the molecule separated by a large hydrophobic patch, and possible sites of interaction are discussed.

TL;DR: Synergistic enhancement of antimicrobial activity was demonstrated in some combinations of peptides belonging to different classes and such antimicrobial peptides may find applications in molecular breeding of plants with increased disease resistance.