A transient assay system for the functional assessment of defense-related genes in wheat

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 647-654

  Schweizer, Patrick ^a   Pokorny, Jana ^a   Abderhalden, Olaf ^a   Dudler, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CHITINASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INOCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLASMID VECTOR; REPORTER GENE; THAUMATIN; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; TUNGSTEN; WHEAT;

BLUMERIA; ERYSIPHE GRAMINIS;

EID: 0032842134     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.8.647     Document Type: Article

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