GhWRKY40, a multiple stress-responsive cotton WRKY gene, plays an important role in the wounding response and enhances susceptibility to Ralstonia solanacearum infection in transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Xiuling ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Li, Yuzhen ^a   Chu, Xiaoqian ^a   Wu, Changai ^a   Guo, Xingqi ^a  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; SALICYLIC ACID; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MPK20 GENE; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT STRESS; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WRKY40 GENE; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GOSSYPIUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GOSSYPIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84899698756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093577     Document Type: Article

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