Suppression and Activation of the Plant Immune System by Pseudomonas syringae Effectors AvrPto and AvrPtoB

Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 121-154

  Martin, Gregory ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

AvrPto; AvrPtoB; Bacterial speck disease; Effector triggered immunity (ETI); Myristoylation; Nicotiana benthamiana; PAMP triggered immunity (PTI); Phosphorylation; Pseudomonas syringae; Tomato; Ubiquitination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886823839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119949138.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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