Mapping the elicitor and necrotic sites of Phytophthora elicitins with synthetic peptides and reporter genes controlled by tobacco defense gene promoters

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 750-760

  Perez, Valérie ^a   Huet, Jean Claude ^a   Nespoulous, Claude ^a   Pernollet, Jean Claude ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Capsicein; Cryptogein; Nicotiana tabacum; Pathogenesis related proteins; Salicylic acid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA ELICITINS; PYTHIUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0031213699     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.6.750     Document Type: Article

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