Suppression of the AvrBs1-specific hypersensitive response by the YopJ effector homolog AvrBsT from Xanthomonas depends on a SNF1-related kinase

New Phytologist

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1058-1074

  Szczesny, Robert ^a   Büttner, Daniela ^a   Escolar, Lucia ^a   Schulze, Sebastian ^a   Seiferth, Anja ^a   Bonas, Ulla ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AvrRxv; Bacterial spot disease; Effectors; Pepper; Protease; Transacetylase; YopJ

Indexed keywords

AVRBS1 PROTEIN, XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SNF1 RELATED PROTEIN KINASES; SNF1-RELATED PROTEIN KINASES; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; CATALYSIS; DICOTYLEDON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRID; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DEFENSE; PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PLANT IMMUNITY; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SOLANACEAE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. VESICATORIA;

EID: 77955744319     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03346.x     Document Type: Article

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