Pathogen-Induced Systemic Activation of a Plant Defensin Gene in Arabidopsis Follows a Salicylic Acid-Independent Pathway

Plant Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2309-2323

  Penninckx, Iris A M A ^a   Eggermont, Kristel ^a   Terras, Franky R G ^a,c   Thomma, Bart P H J ^a   De Samblanx, Genoveva W ^a   Buchala, Antony ^b   Métraux, Jean Pierre ^b   Manners, John M ^a,d   Broekaert, Willem F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; DEFENSIN; JASMONIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNARIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALTERNARIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOPENTANES; DEFENSINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030331042     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.12.2309     Document Type: Article

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