The suppressor of transgene RNA silencing encoded by Cucumber mosaic virus interferes with salicylic acid-mediated virus resistance

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 715-724

  Ji, Liang Hui ^a   Ding, Shou Wei ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Pathogenesis related proteins; Posttranscriptional gene silencing; Systemic acquired resistance

Indexed keywords

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; DEFENSE RESPONSE; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; INOCULATION; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT LEAF; SALICYLIC ACID; SEEDLING; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; TRANSGENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA GLUTINOSA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0035015241     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2001.14.6.715     Document Type: Article

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