RNA silencing suppression by plant pathogens: Defence, counter-defence and counter-counter-defence

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 745-760

  Pumplin, Nathan ^a   Voinnet, Olivier ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; PLANT DNA; PROTEIN P25; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SALICYLIC ACID; VIRUS RNA;

ALLELE; ALTERNARIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIUM; BIOTIC STRESS; BOTRYTIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CRINIVIRUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSARIUM; GEMINIVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GROWTH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT IMMUNITY; POTATO SPINDLE TUBER; POTEXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; TURNIP YELLOW MOSAIC VIRUS; VERTICILLIUM; VIROID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT VIRUSES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84887879790     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3120     Document Type: Review

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