Cell wall-degrading enzymes from Erwinia carotovora cooperate in the salicylic acid-indipendent induction of a plant defense response

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-32

  Vidal, Sabina ^a,c   Eriksson, Anders R B ^a   Montesano, Marcos ^a,b,c   Denecke, Jürgen ^a,d   Palva, E Tapio ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elicitors; Pathogenesis related (PR)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELLULASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT GENETICS; POLYGALACTURONASE;

ERWINIA CAROTOVORA;

EID: 0031940106     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.1.23     Document Type: Article

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