Identification and characterization of in planta-expressed secreted effector proteins from magnaporthe oryzae that induce cell death in rice

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 191-202

  Chen, Songbiao ^a,b,c   Songkumarn, Pattavipha ^b   Venu, R C ^b   Gowda, Malali ^b   Bellizzi, Maria ^b   Hu, Jinnan ^b   Liu, Wende ^a   Ebbole, Daniel ^d   Meyers, Blake ^e   Mitchel, Thomas ^a,b   Wang, Guo Liang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAGNAPORTHE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOPLAST; RICE; SECRETION (PROCESS); TOBACCO;

CELL DEATH; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; MAGNAPORTHE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOPLASTS; RNA, FUNGAL; TOBACCO;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

EID: 84872311712     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-05-12-0117-R     Document Type: Article

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