Plant receptor-like serine threonine kinases: Roles in signaling and plant defense

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 507-517

  Afzal, Ahmed J ^a,c   Wood, Andrew J ^b   Lightfoot, David A ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 43549087401     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-21-5-0507     Document Type: Review

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