The Arabidopsis Rho of plants GTPase AtROP6 functions in developmental and pathogen response pathways

Plant Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1172-1188

  Poraty Gavra, Limor ^a   Zimmermann, Philip ^b   Haigis, Sabine ^c   Bednarek, Paweł ^c   Hazak, Ora ^a   Stelmakh, Oksana Rogovoy ^d   Sadot, Einat ^d   Schulze Lefert, Paul ^c   Gruissem, Wilhelm ^b   Yalovsky, Shaul ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

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EID: 84874587045     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.213165     Document Type: Article

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