Silencing of host basal defense response-related gene expression increases susceptibility of Nicotiana benthamiana to Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis

Phytopathology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 349-357

  Balaji, Vasudevan ^a   Sessa, Guido ^b   Smart, Christine D ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PLANT STEM; SEEDLING; TOBACCO;

ACTINOMYCETALES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT STEMS; SEEDLING; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLAVIBACTER MICHIGANENSIS SUBSP. MICHIGANENSIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

EID: 79952333130     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-05-10-0132     Document Type: Article

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