MAPK cascades in plant disease resistance signaling

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 245-266

  Meng, Xiangzong ^a   Zhang, Shuqun ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease resistance signaling; Effector triggered immunity; Mitogen activated protein kinase; PAMP triggered immunity; Pathogen microbe associated molecular pattern; Pattern recognition receptor

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84879705769     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-082712-102314     Document Type: Article

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