Identification of 118 Arabidopsis transcription factor and 30 ubiquitin-ligase genes responding to chitin, a plant-defense elicitor

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 900-911

  Libault, Marc ^a   Wan, Jinrong ^a   Czechowski, Tomasz ^b   Udvardi, Michael ^b   Stacey, Gary ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

PAMP

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHITOOCTAOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA;

EID: 34547107336     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-8-0900     Document Type: Article

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