Alfalfa benefits from Medicago truncatula: The RCT1 gene from M. truncatula confers broad-spectrum resistance to anthracnose in alfalfa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 12164-12169

  Yang, Shengming ^a   Gao, Muqiang ^a   Xu, Chenwu ^a   Gao, Jianchang ^a   Deshpande, Shweta ^b   Lin, Shaoping ^b   Roe, Bruce A ^b   Zhu, Hongyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colletotrichum trifolii; Disease resistance; Medicago sativa

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT KINASE 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

AGRONOMIC TRAIT; ALFALFA; ANTHRACNOSE; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CLONE; COLLETOTRICHUM; CULTIVAR; FORAGE; GENE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCROSSING; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLLETOTRICHUM; GENES, PLANT; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1;

COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM TRIFOLII; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 50449102441     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802518105     Document Type: Article

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