Spatio-Temporal Expression Patterns of Arabidopsis thaliana and Medicago truncatula Defensin-Like Genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tesfaye, Mesfin ^a,g   Silverstein, Kevin A T ^a   Nallu, Sumitha ^a,h   Wang, Lin ^a,i   Botanga, Christopher J ^b   Gomez, S Karen ^c   Costa, Liliana M ^d,e   Harrison, Maria J ^c   Samac, Deborah A ^f   Glazebrook, Jane ^a   Katagiri, Fumiaki ^a   Gutierrez Marcos, Jose F ^e   VandenBosch, Kathryn A ^a,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c United States Department of Agriculture   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Plant Science Research Unit   (United States)

^g CAPELLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; JASMONIC ACID;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; DEFENSIN LIKE GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLORESCENCE; INOCULATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; UPREGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEFENSINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84875079915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058992     Document Type: Article

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