Evolutionary and Functional Dynamics of Oomycete Effector Genes

Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 101-120

  van Damme, Mireille ^a,b   Cano, Liliana M ^a   Oliva, Ricardo ^a   Schornack, Sebastian ^a   Segretin, María Eugenia ^a,c   Kamoun, Sophien ^a   Raffaele, Sylvain ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Disease and oomycetes; Genome reduction; Immunity suppression; Intimate associations; Modular architecture; NB LRR family; Oomycete effector genes; Oomycete effectors, sites; Plant parasitic oomycetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872496872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119949138.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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