Using Arabidopsis mutants to delineate disease resistance signaling pathways

Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 199-216

  Shapiro, Allan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Disease resistance; Mutants; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINE; MUTANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENICS; WILD RELATIVE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0033768098     PISSN: 07060661     EISSN: 17152992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07060660009500465     Document Type: Article

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