Four plant defensins from an indigenous South African Brassicaceae species display divergent activities against two test pathogens despite high sequence similarity in the encoding genes

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Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  De Beer, Abré ^a   Vivier, Melané A ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BRASSICACEAE; FUNGI; FUSARIUM SOLANI; HELIOPHILA CORONOPIFOLIA; RAPHANUS; RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 80054966361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-459     Document Type: Article

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