Pectobacterium carotovorum elicits plant cell death with DspE/F but the P. carotovorum DspE does not suppress callose or induce expression of plant genes early in plant-microbe interactions

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 773-786

  Kim, Hye Sook ^a   Thammarat, Phanit ^c   Lommel, Steven A ^c   Hogan, Clifford S ^b   Charkowski, Amy O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALLOSE; GLUCAN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCANS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT LEAVES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 79959336834     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-06-10-0143     Document Type: Article

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