Tobacco transgenic for the flax rust resistance gene L expresses allele-specific activation of defense responses

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 224-232

  Frost, Donna ^a,b   Way, Heather ^a   Howles, Paul ^a   Luck, Joanne ^a   Manners, John ^a   Hardham, Adrienne ^b   Finnegan, Jean ^a   Ellis, Jeff ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

NBS LRR resistance genes; Plant defense

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; CERCOSPORA; CERCOSPORA NICOTIANAE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; LINUM USITATISSIMUM; MELAMPSORA LINI; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA PARASITICA; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 1642311105     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.2.224     Document Type: Article

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