Probing the mechanisms of silicon-mediated pathogen resistance

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-3

  Cai, Kunzheng ^a   Gao, Dan ^a,b   Chen, Jining ^a   Luo, Shiming ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biotic stress; Induced resistance; Pathogen; Signal transduction; Silicon

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHORMONE; SILICON;

DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILICON;

EID: 58449127819     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.1.7280     Document Type: Short Survey

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