Overexpression of VvWRKY2 in tobacco enhances broad resistance to necrotrophic fungal pathogens

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 434-447

  Mzid, Rim ^a,b,d   Marchive, Chloé ^a,e   Blancard, Dominique ^c   Deluc, Laurent ^a,f   Barrieu, François ^a   Corio Costet, Marie France ^c   Drira, Nourredine ^b   Hamdi, Saïd ^a   Lauvergeat, Virginie ^a  

^a Bordeaux Sciences Agro   (France)

^b Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE BORJ CÉDRIA   (Tunisia)

^e United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUNGI; GENE ENCODING; PATHOGENS; PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

GRAPE BERRY; GRAPEVINE PLANTS; NECROTROPHIC FUNGAL PATHOGENS; PLASMOPARA VITICOLA;

GENE EXPRESSION;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNARIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS; DEUTEROMYCETES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRAPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALTERNARIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BOTRYTIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOBACCO; VITIS;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PLASMOPARA VITICOLA; PYTHIUM; VITACEAE; VITIS; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 34848891868     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.00975.x     Document Type: Article

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