Microbial Effectors and Their Role in Plant Defense Suppression

Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 33-52

  Hann, Dagmar ^a   Boller, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

"effector triggered susceptibility" (ETS); "guard hypothesis"; "receptor ligand model"; Avr gene, "effectors"; AvrPto, AvrPtoB, in PTI suppression; Disease, and gene for gene; Fungi, oomycetes, pathogens; Microbial effectors; Plant defense suppression; PVX suppressing callose

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875449789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119949138.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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