Ethylene signalling and ethylene-targeted transcription factors are required to balance beneficial and nonbeneficial traits in the symbiosis between the endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica and Arabidopsis thaliana

New Phytologist

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1062-1073

  Camehl, Iris ^a   Sherameti, Irena ^a   Venus, Yvonne ^a   Bethke, Gerit ^b   Varma, Ajit ^c   Lee, Justin ^b   Oelmüller, Ralf ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

EIN2; EIN3 EIL1; ERF1; Ethylene; ETR1; Jasmonic acid; Piriformospora indica; Plant microbe interaction

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

COLONIZATION; DICOTYLEDON; ENDOPHYTE; ETHYLENE; FUNGUS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOMASS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; UPREGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIOMASS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYPHAE; MUTATION; PLANT ROOTS; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FUNGI; PIRIFORMOSPORA INDICA;

EID: 77949336625     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03149.x     Document Type: Article

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