Sm1, a proteinaceous elicitor secreted by the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma virens induces plant defense responses and systemic resistance

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 838-853

  Djonović, Slavica ^a   Pozo, Maria J ^b   Dangott, Lawrence J ^a   Howell, Charles R ^c   Kenerley, Charles M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLETOTRICHUM; COTTON; COTYLEDON; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; RICE; SECRETION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRICHODERMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLLETOTRICHUM; COTYLEDON; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, FUNGAL; GOSSYPIUM; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TRICHODERMA;

COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM SP.; DICOTYLEDONEAE; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HYPOCREA VIRENS; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 33746225243     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-19-0838     Document Type: Article

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