Antifungal defensins and their role in plant defense

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Lacerda, Ariane F ^a,b   Vasconcelos, Érico A R ^b,c   Pelegrini, Patrícia Barbosa ^b   Grossi de Sa, Maria F ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Peptide function; Peptide structure; Phytopathogens; Plant defensins; Transgeny

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN;

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM; ALFALFA; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; BARREL MEDIC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROP PRODUCTION; HEUCHERA; IC 50; MAIZE; MYCOSIS; NICOTIANA; NONHUMAN; PEA; PHASEOLUS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT DEFENSE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADISH; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEPHROSIA; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; WHITE SPRUCE;

EID: 84899700887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00116     Document Type: Review

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