A point mutation in the ethylene-inducing xylanase elicitor inhibits the β-1-4-endoxylanase activity but not the elicitation activity

Plant Physiology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 345-351

  Furman Matarasso, Noa ^a   Cohen, Eitan ^a   Du, Quansheng ^b   Chejanovsky, Nor ^b   Hanania, Uri ^a   Avni, Adi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELICITOR; ENDOXYLANASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITOR; MUTATION; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

INSECTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0033213680     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.121.2.345     Document Type: Article

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