Overexpression of Pto activates defense responses and confers broad resistance

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-29

  Tang, Xiaoyan ^a   Xie, Mingtang ^a   Kim, Young Jin ^b,e   Zhou, Jianmin ^a   Klessig, Daniel F ^c,d   Martin, Gregory B ^b,e  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL DEATH; DISEASE RESISTANCE; MICROSCOPY; MYCOSIS; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENETICS; RESISTANCE GENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 0032750816     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.1.15     Document Type: Article

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