Brachypodium as an emerging model for cereal-pathogen interactions

Annals of Botany

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 717-731

  Fitzgerald, Timothy L ^a   Powell, Jonathan J ^a,b   Schneebeli, Katharina ^a   Hsia, M Mandy ^c   Gardiner, Donald M ^a   Bragg, Jennifer N ^c,d   McIntyre, C Lynne ^a   Manners, John M ^a   Ayliffe, Mick ^a   Watt, Michelle ^a   Vogel, John P ^e   Henry, Robert J ^b   Kazan, Kemal ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

barley stripe mosaic virus; Brachypodium distachyon; cereal pathogen interaction; ecotypes; functional genomics; Fusarium; Magnaporthe; model species; mutants; plant defence; Puccinia; Pyrenophora; Rhizoctonia; Stagonospora; Xanthomonas

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTYPE; EXPLOITATION; GENOME; GRASS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MUTATION; PLANT DEFENSE; VIRAL DISEASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARLEY STRIPE MOSAIC VIRUS; BRACHYPODIUM; BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; FUSARIUM; MAGNAPORTHE; PUCCINIA; PYRENOPHORA; RHIZOCTONIA; STAGONOSPORA; XANTHOMONAS;

BRACHYPODIUM; CROP; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FOOD GRAIN; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENOME;

BRACHYPODIUM; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EDIBLE GRAIN; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 84927139279     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcv010     Document Type: Review

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