Chemical signaling between plants and plant-pathogenic bacteria

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-37

  Venturi, Vittorio ^a   Fuqua, Clay ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acylhomoserine lactones; Agrobacterium plant signaling; Diketopiperazines; Interkingdom signaling; Plant phenolic compounds; Plant bacteria interactions; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LACTONE; LUXR AUTOINDUCER BINDING PROTEINS; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PIPERAZINEDIONE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIKETOPIPERAZINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LACTONES; PHENOLS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84881467526     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-082712-102239     Document Type: Article

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