Tomato I2 immune receptor can be engineered to confer partial resistance to the oomycete phytophthora infestans in addition to the fungus fusarium oxysporum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1316-1329

  Giannakopoulou, Artemis ^a   Steele, John F C ^b   Segretin, Maria Eugenia ^c   Bozkurt, Tolga O ^a,d   Zhou, Ji ^a,e   Robatzek, Silke ^a   Banfield, Mark J ^b   Pais, Marina ^a   Kamoun, Sophien ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e EARLHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; FUSARIUM; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUSARIUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 84951844034     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-07-15-0147-R     Document Type: Article

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