A permeable cuticle in Arabidopsis leads to a strong resistance to Botrytis cinerea

EMBO Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2158-2168

  Bessire, Michael ^a   Chassot, Céline ^b   Jacquat, Anne Claude ^b   Humphry, Matt ^c   Borel, Sandra ^a   Petétot, Jean MacDonald Comber ^a   Métraux, Jean Pierre ^b   Nawrath, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Cutin; Environmental stresses; Lipid biosynthesis; Pathogen defence

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BOTRYTIS RESISTANT 1 PROTEIN; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CUTICLE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BOTRYTIS; COENZYME A LIGASES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PERMEABILITY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT LEAVES;

ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; SCLEROTINIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 34247211531     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601658     Document Type: Article

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