Insect peptide metchnikowin confers on barley a selective capacity for resistance to fungal ascomycetes pathogens

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4105-4114

  Rahnamaeian, Mohammad ^a   Langen, Gregor ^a   Imani, Jafargholi ^a   Khalifa, Walaa ^a   Altincicek, Boran ^a   Von Wettstein, Diter ^b   Kogel, Karl Heinz ^a   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Ascomycete fungi; Barley; Disease resistance; Metchnikowin

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; METCHNIKOWIN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARLEY; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SYNTHESIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HORDEUM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ERYSIPHALES; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; HEXAPODA; HORDEUM; LILIOPSIDA; PIRIFORMOSPORA INDICA;

EID: 70349671455     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erp240     Document Type: Article

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