The battle in the apoplast: Further insights into the roles of proteases and their inhibitors in plant–pathogen interactions

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  Jashni, Mansoor Karimi ^a,b   Mehrabi, Rahim ^a,c   Collemare, Jérôme ^a,d   Mesarich, Carl H ^a,e   de Wit, Pierre J G M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c SEED AND PLANT IMPROVEMENT INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^d Universite d'Angers   (France)

^e THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chitinase; Cysteine protease; Defence; Metalloprotease; Protease inhibitor; Serine protease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938835638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00584     Document Type: Article

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