Characterization of AvrBs3-like effectors from a Brassicaceae pathogen reveals virulence and avirulence activities and a protein with a novel repeat architecture

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 838-848

  Kay, Sabine ^a   Boch, Jens ^a   Bonas, Ulla ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AvrBs4; Bs3; Lycopersicon esculentum; Raphanus sativus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRASSICACEAE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TOBACCO; TOMATO; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRASSICACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BRASSICACEAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 23044448464     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-0838     Document Type: Article

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