Agroinfiltration by cytokinin-producing Agrobacterium sp. strain GV3101 primes defense responses in Nicotiana tabacum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1175-1185

  Sheikh, Arsheed Hussain ^a,b   Raghuram, Badmi ^a   Eschen Lippold, Lennart ^b   Scheel, Dierk ^b   Lee, Justin ^b   Sinha, Alok Krishna ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM SP.; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

CYTOKININ; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SA-INDUCED PROTEIN KINASE; SALICYLIC ACID; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOPLAST; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CYTOKININS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOPLASTS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SALICYLIC ACID; TOBACCO;

EID: 84907896236     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-04-14-0114-R     Document Type: Article

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