A protective role for the embryo surrounding region of the maize endosperm, as evidenced by the characterisation of ZmESR-6, a defensin gene specifically expressed in this region

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 269-282

  Balandín, Maite ^a   Royo, Joaquín ^a   Gómez, Elisa ^a   Muniz, Luis M ^a   Molina, Antonio ^b   Hueros, Gregorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Defensin; Embryo surrounding region; Endosperm development; Maize endosperm; Plant defence

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CLONING; DNA; GENES; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYPEPTIDES; SIGNALING;

DEFENSIN; EMBRYO; IMMATURE KERNELS; PLANT PATHOGENS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IC 50; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DEFENSINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZEA MAYS;

CHARACTERISTICS; CLONES; CORN; GENES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PEPTIDES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 23744471980     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-3479-1     Document Type: Article

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