The RNA silencing enzyme RNA polymerase V is required for plant immunity

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  López, Ana ^a   Ramírez, Vicente ^a   García Andrade, Javier ^a   Flors, Victor ^b   Vera, Pablo ^a  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JASMONIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE IV; RNA POLYMERASE V; SALICYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NRPD1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT RNA; RNA POLYMERASE IV, ARABIDOPSIS; RNA POLYMERASE V, ARABIDOPSIS; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AGO4 GENE; ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DRD1 GENE; DRM1DRM2 GENE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FUNGUS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NRDP1 GENE; NRPD2 GENE; NRPE1 GENE; OVEREXPRESSOR OF CATIONIC PEROXIDASE 1 GENE; PLANT GENE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLECTOSPHAERELLA CUCUMERINA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RDR2 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ASCOMYCETES; BOTRYTIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI; PLECTOSPHAERELLA CUCUMERINA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ASCOMYCOTA; BOTRYTIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MUTANT PROTEINS; PLANT IMMUNITY; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84855283460     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002434     Document Type: Article

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