Seed defensins of barnyard grass Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beauv.

Biochimie

Volumn 90, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1667-1673

  Odintsova, Tatyana I ^a   Rogozhin, Eugene A ^b   Baranov, Yurij ^b   Musolyamov, Alexander Kh ^b   Yalpani, Nasser ^c   Egorov, Tsezi A ^b   Grishin, Eugene V ^b  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Defensins; Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beauv; Triticum kiharae Dorof. et Migusch; Weeds

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BARNYARD GRASS; ECHINOCHLOA; GENE LOCATION; GRASS; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT SEED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DEFENSINS; ECHINOCHLOA; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ECHINOCHLOA CRUS-GALLI; FUNGI; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; TRITICUM;

EID: 55349099842     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: 61831638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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