The root hair “infectome” of medicago truncatula uncovers changes in cell cycle genes and reveals a requirement for auxin signaling in rhizobial infectionw

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4680-4701

  Breakspear, Andrew ^a   Liu, Chengwu ^a   Roy, Sonali ^a   Stacey, Nicola ^a   Rogers, Christian ^a   Trick, Martin ^a   Morieri, Giulia ^a   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^b   Wen, Jiangqi ^b   Oldroyd, Giles E D ^a   Downie, J Allan ^a   Murray, Jeremy D ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BARREL MEDIC; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOBIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; RHIZOBIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84961291224     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.133496     Document Type: Article

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