Suppression of tobacco basic chitinase gene expression in response to colonization by the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 489-497

  David, Rakefet ^a   Itzhaki, Hanan ^b,c   Ginzberg, Idit ^a   Gafni, Yedidya ^a   Galili, Gad ^b   Kapulnik, Yoram ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pathogen related (PR) proteins; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CLONED GENE; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTIANA; NORTHERN BLOTTING; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; MYCORRHIZAE; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM; VALERIANA EDULIS;

EID: 0032100781     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.6.489     Document Type: Article

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