Microbial elicitors and their receptors in plants

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 34, Issue , 1996, Pages 387-412

  Hahn, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

binding protein; elicitor; plant defense; receptor; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029862345     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.34.1.387     Document Type: Review

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