Crystal structures of flax rust avirulence proteins AvrL567-A and -D reveal details of the structural basis for flax disease resistance specificity

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2898-2912

  Wang, Ching I A ^a   Gunčar, Gregor ^a,e   Forwood, Jade K ^a,f   Teh, Trazel ^a   Catanzariti, Ann Maree ^b,g   Lawrence, Gregory J ^b   Loughlin, Fionna E ^c   Mackay, Joel P ^c   Schirra, Horst Joachim ^a   Anderson, Peter A ^d   Ellis, Jeffrey G ^b   Dodds, Peter N ^b   Kobe, Boštjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^f CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISEASE CONTROL; GENES; PATHOGENS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMORPHISM;

AVIRULENCE; FLAX RUST; PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE;

PROTEINS;

LINUM USITATISSIMUM; MELAMPSORA LINI;

EID: 35748972958     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.053611     Document Type: Article

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