Expression of a WIPK-activated transcription factor results in increase of endogenous salicylic acid and pathogen resistance in tobacco plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1169-1174

  Waller, Frank ^a,c   Müller, Axel ^b   Chung, Kwi Mi ^a   Yap, Yun Kiam ^a,d   Nakamura, Kimiyo ^a   Weiler, Elmar ^b   Sano, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Hypersensitive response; Necrotic lesion; Nicotiana tabacum; Salicylic acid; Tobacco mosaic virus; Wound induced protein kinase

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SALICYLIC ACID; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WIPK PROTEIN, NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ARTICLE; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SALICYLIC ACID; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 33749030697     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcj079     Document Type: Article

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