Convergent Evolution of Disease Resistance Gene Specificity in Two Flowering Plant Families

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 309-318

  Ashfield, Tom ^a   Ong, Laura E ^a   Nobuta, Kan ^a   Schneider, Christopher M ^a   Innes, Roger W ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GENES; PROTEINS;

LAND PLANTS; PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 1042267608     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.016725     Document Type: Article

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