The miR9863 Family Regulates Distinct Mla Alleles in Barley to Attenuate NLR Receptor-Triggered Disease Resistance and Cell-Death Signaling

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Jie ^a,b,d   Cheng, Xiliu ^a,b   Liu, Da ^a,b   Xu, Weihui ^c   Wise, Roger ^c   Shen, Qian Hua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 9863; MLA1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; MLA1 PROTEIN, HORDEUM VULGARE; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL DEATH; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MLA GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UPREGULATION; WHEAT; ALLELE; ASCOMYCETES; CONFORMATION; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HORDEUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT IMMUNITY; PUBLICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BLUMERIA GRAMINIS F. SP. HORDEI; ERYSIPHALES; FUNGI; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

ALLELES; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; HORDEUM; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLATIONS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84919682706     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004755     Document Type: Article

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