Signaling between nematodes and plants

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 372-376

  Bird, David McK ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis RESPONSE REGULATOR5; ARR5; CLAVATA1; CLV1; EST; expressed sequence tag; GC; giant cells; HGT; horizontal gene transfer; KNOTTED1; KNOX; PHAN; PHANTASTICA; RKN; RNA interference; RNAi; root knot nematode(s)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; NEMATODA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA; NEMATODA;

EID: 3042766150     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.05.005     Document Type: Review

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