A cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptide from Pinus monticola (PmAMP1) confers resistance to multiple fungal pathogens in canola (Brassica napus)

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 61-74

  Verma, Shiv S ^a   Yajima, William R ^b   Rahman, Muhammad H ^a   Shah, Saleh ^c   Liu, Jun Jun ^d   Ekramoddoullah, Abul K M ^d   Kav, Nat N V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Plant Biotechnology   (Canada)

^d PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternaria brassicae; Antimicrobial peptide; Brassica napus; Cysteine rich protein; Leptosphaeria maculans; Multiple disease resistance; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL FREE SYSTEM; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAPESEED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALTERNARIA; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ASCOMYCOTA; BRASSICA NAPUS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CYSTEINE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PINUS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA BRASSICAE; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; FUNGI; LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS; PINUS MONTICOLA; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 84862809534     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-012-9895-0     Document Type: Article

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