Plant disease resistance genes encode members of an ancient and diverse protein family within the nucleotide-binding superfamily

Plant Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 317-332

  Meyers, Blake C ^a,b   Dickerman, Allan W ^c   Michelmore, Richard W ^a   Sivaramakrishnan, Subramoniam ^a,d   Sobral, Bruno W ^c   Young, Nevin D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME;

EID: 0033231602     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.t01-1-00606.x     Document Type: Article

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