Subcellular targeting of an evolutionarily conserved plant defensin MtDef4.2 determines the outcome of plant-pathogen interaction in transgenic Arabidopsis

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1032-1046

  Kaur, Jagdeep ^a   Thokala, Mercy ^a   Robert Seilaniantz, Alexandre ^b   Zhao, Patrick ^c   Peyret, Hadrien ^b   Berg, Howard ^a   Pandey, Sona ^a   Jones, Jonathan ^b   Shah, Dilip ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; VOMITOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERONOSPORA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DEFENSINS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERONOSPORA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRICHOTHECENES; VACUOLES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; HYALOPERONOSPORA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; OOMYCETES;

EID: 84867994597     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2012.00813.x     Document Type: Article

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