Speak, friend, and enter: Signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 252-263

  Oldroyd, Giles E D ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; FLOTILLIN 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ALFALFA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BARREL MEDIC; CALCIUM SIGNALING; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; HOST; IMMUNITY; LEGUME; LOTUS JAPONICUS; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE; ROOT HAIR; SYMBIOSIS;

CALCIUM SIGNALING; FABACEAE; FLAVONOIDS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; PLANTS; RHIZOBIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84876379435     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2990     Document Type: Review

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