Antagonistic interaction between abscisic acid and jasmonate-ethylene signaling pathways modulates defense gene expression and disease resistance in arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3460-3479

  Anderson, Jonathan P ^a,b   Badruzsaufari, Ellet ^a   Schenk, Peer M ^a   Manners, John M ^a,b   Desmond, Olivia J ^a   Ehlert, Christina ^b   Maclean, Donald J ^a   Ebert, Paul R ^a   Kazan, Kemal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ENZYMES; ETHYLENE; GENES; HORMONES; TISSUE; VEGETATION;

ABIOTIC STRESSES; BIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; JASMONIC ACID (JA);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ABSCISIC ACID; ENZYMES; ETHYLENE; GENES; HORMONES; PLANT TISSUES; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM;

ABA2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ABSCISIC ACID; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; JASMONIC ACID; MYC2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; UPREGULATION;

ABSCISIC ACID; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CYCLOPENTANES; ETHYLENES; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 14644420609     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.025833     Document Type: Article

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