A single plant resistance gene promoter engineered to recognize multiple TAL effectors from disparate pathogens

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

Volumn 106, Issue 48, 2009, Pages 20526-20531

  Römer, Patrick ^a   Recht, Sabine ^a   Lahaye, Thomas ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AvrBs3; AvrXa27; Transcription activator like effector proteins; Xanthomonas

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PEPPER; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RICE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; XANTHOMONAS VESICATORIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XANTHOMONAS;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. VESICATORIA; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE PV. ORYZAE;

EID: 73949106226     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908812106     Document Type: Article

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