Development of resistance against blackleg disease in Brassica oleracea var. botrytis through in silico methods

Blackleg caused by Leptosphaeria maculans is a very important disease worldwide and causes large yield loss of significant vegetable crops of Brassicaceae family. Absence of resistant ‘B’ genome in vegetable Brassica oleracea proposed these species susceptible to blackleg disease. We present a specific piece of molecular modelling work, combining in silico docking methods, energy minimization calculations and in silico cloning, to develop a rational peptide as a candidate that functions as a resistance inducing agent against L. maculans in B. oleracea var. botrytis. Th