Multiple genetic processes result in heterogeneous rates of evolution within the major cluster disease resistance genes in lettuce

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2870-2894

  Kuang, Hanhui ^a   Woo, Sung Sick ^a,c   Meyers, Blake C ^a,d   Nevo, Eviatar ^b   Michelmore, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c Unigen Inc   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

ALLELE; LECTUCA SATIVA; NEUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE-LEUCINE RICH REPEAT (NBS-LRR); RESISTANT GENE CANDIDATE2 (RGC2);

CROPS;

DISEASES; FARM CROPS; GENES; GENOTYPES; LEUCINE; MUTATION; NUTRITION; PROTEINS;

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRON; LETTUCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOTYPE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTRONS; LETTUCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 14744270315     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.025502     Document Type: Article

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