Transgenic expression of pear PGIP in tomato limits fungal colonization

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 942-950

  Powell, Ann L T ^a   Van Kan, Jan ^b   Ten Have, Arjen ^b   Visser, Jaap ^b   Greve, L Carl ^a   Bennett, Alan B ^a   Labavitch, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lycopersicon esculentum; Plant defenses; Reducing sugar assay

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITOR; FUNGAL GROWTH; GLYCOSYLATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; PEAR; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYGALACTURONASE INHIBITOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN DETECTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0033838231     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.9.942     Document Type: Article

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