Plant tissue culture involves growing plant cells or tissues under sterile conditions in a nutrient medium. One way to engineer plant disease resistance is to overproduce salicylic acid, which induces the production of pathogenesis-related proteins that have anti-fungal properties. Genes encoding enzymes that synthesize salicylic acid from chorismate can be inserted into plants. Fusion proteins containing antimicrobial peptides and a fusarium-binding antibody have also been used to confer resistance in plants against pathogenic fungi such as Fusarium species.