The Nicotiana benthamiana mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade and WRKY transcription factor participate in Nep1Mo-triggered plant responses

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1639-1653

  Zhang, Huajian ^a,b   Li, Deqing ^a   Wang, Meifang ^a   Liu, Jiewen ^a   Teng, Wenjun ^a   Cheng, Baoping ^a   Huang, Qian ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Song, Wenwen ^a   Dong, Suomeng ^a   Zheng, Xiaobo ^a   Zhang, Zhengguang ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; SA INDUCED PROTEIN KINASE; SA-INDUCED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MAGNAPORTHE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STOMA; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CALCIUM; CELL DEATH; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MAGNAPORTHE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRIC OXIDE; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDLING; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; PHYTOPHTHORA NICOTIANAE;

EID: 84869059344     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-11-11-0293     Document Type: Article

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