Introduction of a Cationic Peptide, CEMA, into Cotton Caused Abnormal Phenotype and Chloroplast Degeneration

As a strategy for phytopathogen control throughtransgenic way,antimicrobial peptide genes havebeen employed over the last two decades.CEMA is a cationic antimicrobial chimericpeptide,which is produced by fusing eightamino acid residues from the antimicrobialpeptide ceropin A with a modified meltin.Threetransgenic cotton plants were generated by