Strategies used by bacterial pathogens to suppress plant defenses

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 356-364

  Abramovitch, Robert B ^a   Martin, Gregory B ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

avirulence; Avr; Bgh; Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei; CDS; cell death suppressor; coi1; COR; coronatine; coronatine insensitive1; DC3000; FLAGELLIN INSENSITIVE2; FLS2; HR; HST; hypersensitive response; Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato strain DC3000

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FUNGUS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLUMERIA GRAMINIS; BLUMERIA GRAMINIS F. SP. HORDEI; FUNGI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. TOMATO;

EID: 3042720474     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.05.002     Document Type: Review

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