The tomato resistance protein Bs4 is a predicted non-nuclear TIR-NB-LRR protein that mediates defense responses to severely truncated derivatives of AvrBs4 and overexpressed AvrBs3

Plant Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 46-60

  Schornack, Sebastian ^a   Ballvora, Agim ^b,f   Gürlebeck, Doreen ^a   Peart, Jack ^c   Ganal, Martin ^d   Baker, Barbara ^e   Bonas, Ulla ^a,b   Lahaye, Thomas ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

^c SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^e PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease resistance gene; Gene for gene interaction; Map based cloning; Tomato; Type III effector; Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria

Indexed keywords

CLONING; DNA; PROTEINS; REACTION KINETICS; YEAST;

INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR DISSECTION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON PENNELLII; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA GLUTINOSA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. VESICATORIA;

EID: 0345874794     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01937.x     Document Type: Article

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