Chloroplasts play a central role in plant defence and are targeted by pathogen effectors

Nature Plants

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Zabala, Marta de Torres ^a   Littlejohn, George ^a   Jayaraman, Siddharth ^a   Studholme, David ^a   Bailey, Trevor ^a   Lawson, Tracy ^b   Tillich, Michael ^c   Licht, Dirk ^c   Bölter, Bettina ^d   Delfino, Laura ^d   Truman, William ^e   Mansfield, John ^f   Smirnoff, Nicholas ^a   Grant, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84958852350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2015.74     Document Type: Article

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