A single-amino acid substitution in the sixth leucine-rich repeat of barley MLA6 and MLA13 alleviates dependence on RAR1 for disease resistance signaling

Plant Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-226

  Halterman, Dennis A ^a   Wise, Roger P ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blumeria graminis; RAR1 signaling; Resistance gene evolution; Resistance specificity; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DISEASES; FUNGUS RESISTANCE; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

DISEASE-REISTANCE PATHWAYS; HOST SIGNALLING; PATHOGENS;

AMINO ACIDS;

CARRIER PROTEIN; MLA6 PROTEIN, HORDEUM VULGARE; PLANT DNA; RAR1 PROTEIN, HORDEUM VULGARE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BARLEY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; HORDEUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; BLUMERIA GRAMINIS; BLUMERIA GRAMINIS F. SP. HORDEI; ERYSIPHALES; FUNGI; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 1942507451     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02032.x     Document Type: Article

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