Resistance of Malus domestica fruit to Botrytis cinerea depends on endogenous ethylene biosynthesis

Phytopathology

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1311-1321

  Akagi, Aya ^a,c   Dandekar, Abhaya M ^b   Stotz, Henrik U ^a,d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLATE SYNTHASE; 1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLATE SYNTHASE; CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; LYASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHORMONE; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BOTRYTIS; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALUS; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BOTRYTIS; CHITINASE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LYASES; MALUS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 80655130306     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-03-11-0087     Document Type: Article

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