Evolution and conservation of plant NLR functions

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Jacob, Florence ^a,b   Vernaldi, Saskia ^a   Maekawa, Takaki ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Effector triggered immunity; Innate immunity; NB LRR; NLR; Resistance protein

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING DOMAIN AND LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA RAPA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION;

EID: 84886020336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00297     Document Type: Review

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