Harpin induces disease resistance in Arabidopsis through the systemic acquired resistance pathway mediated by salicylic acid and the NIM1 gene

Plant Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 207-215

  Dong, Hansong ^a   Delaney, Terrence P ^a   Bauer, David W ^a   Beer, Steven V ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; HARPIN; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SALICYLIC ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC ACQUIRED RESISTANCE;

ACETIC ACIDS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CYCLOPENTANES; ETHYLENES; MUTATION; OOMYCETES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PSEUDOMONAS; SALICYLIC ACID; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; FUNGI; HYALOPERONOSPORA PARASITICA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PERONOSPORA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. TOMATO; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 0033213626     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00595.x     Document Type: Article

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