Combined genetic and transcriptomic analysis reveals three major signalling pathways activated by Myc-LCOs in Medicago truncatula

New Phytologist

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 224-240

  Camps, Céline ^a   Jardinaud, Marie Françoise ^a,b   Rengel, David ^a   Carrère, Sébastien ^a   Hervé, Christine ^a   Debellé, Frédéric ^a   Gamas, Pascal ^a   Bensmihen, Sandra ^a   Gough, Clare ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi; Common symbiotic signalling pathway (CSSP); Lipo chitooligosaccharides (LCOs); Medicago truncatula; Symbiosis; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; LEGUME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA; ROOT SYSTEM; SYMBIOSIS;

FUNGI; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

CHITIN; FUNGAL POLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGOCHITOSAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BARREL MEDIC; DRUG EFFECTS; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

CHITIN; FUNGAL POLYSACCHARIDES; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MUTATION; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84940467103     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13427     Document Type: Article

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