Antimicrobial defenses and resistance in forest trees: Challenges and perspectives in a genomic era

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 221-244

  Kovalchuk, Andriy ^a   Keriö, Susanna ^a   Oghenekaro, Abbot O ^a   Jaber, Emad ^a   Raffaello, Tommaso ^a,b   Asiegbu, Fred O ^a,b  

^a Forest Pathology Research Laboratory   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest tree pathology; Genomics; Model species; Transcriptomics; Tree immunity; Tree pathogen interactions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BREEDING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENOME; TREE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BREEDING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; TREES;

EID: 84881420274     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-082712-102307     Document Type: Article

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