A Genome-Wide Association Study of the Maize Hypersensitive Defense Response Identifies Genes That Cluster in Related Pathways

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Olukolu, Bode A ^a   Wang, Guan Feng ^a   Vontimitta, Vijay ^b   Venkata, Bala P ^b   Marla, Sandeep ^b   Ji, Jiabing ^b   Gachomo, Emma ^b   Chu, Kevin ^b   Negeri, Adisu ^a   Benson, Jacqueline ^c   Nelson, Rebecca ^c   Bradbury, Peter ^c   Nielsen, Dahlia ^a   Holland, James B ^a,d   Balint Kurti, Peter J ^a,d   Johal, Gurmukh ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN; PLANT PROTEIN; ZMCIP1 PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT HYPERSENSITIVE RESPONSE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RP1 D21 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UBIQUITINATION; UPREGULATION; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MAIZE; PLANT DISEASE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84923033904     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004562     Document Type: Article

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