Transcriptional programming and functional interactions within the phytophthora sojae RXLR effector repertoire

Plant Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2064-2086

  Wang, Qunqing ^a   Han, Changzhi ^a   Ferreira, Adriana O ^b   Yu, Xiaoli ^a   Ye, Wenwu ^a   Tripathy, Sucheta ^b   Kale, Shiv D ^b   Gu, Biao ^b,c   Sheng, Yuting ^a   Sui, Yangyang ^a   Wang, Xiaoli ^a   Zhang, Zhengguang ^a   Cheng, Baoping ^a   Dong, Suomeng ^a   Shan, Weixing ^c   Zheng, Xiaobo ^a,d   Dou, Daolong ^a,b,d   Tyler, Brett M ^d   Wang, Yuanchao ^a,d  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; GLYCINE MAX; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA SOJAE;

EID: 79960857750     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.086082     Document Type: Article

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