Agrobacterium infection and plant defense-transformation success hangs by a thread

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Pitzschke, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Plant defense; Reactive oxygen species; Transformation; VIP1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896070444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00519     Document Type: Review

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