The tomato Cf-9 disease resistance gene functions in tobacco and potato to confer responsiveness to the fungal avirulence gene product Avr9

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1251-1266

  Hammond Kosack, Kim E ^a,b   Tang, Saijun ^a,c   Harrison, Kate ^a,d   Jones, Jonathan D G ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Monsanto Europe NV   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; FUNGI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0031793699     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.8.1251     Document Type: Article

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