Flax rust resistance gene specificity is based on direct resistance-avirulence protein interactions

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2008, Pages 289-306

  Ellis, Jeffrey G ^a   Dodds, Peter N ^a   Lawrence, Gregory J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avirulence genes; Disease resistance genes; Effector proteins; Flax rust resistance; Rust fungi

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; LINUM USITATISSIMUM; MELAMPSORA LINI; UREDINALES;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

FLAX; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NECROSIS; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; VIRULENCE;

FLAX; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; NECROSIS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 35148843712     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.45.062806.094331     Document Type: Review

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