Keeping control: The role of senescence and development in plant pathogenesis and defense

Plants

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 449-488

  Häffner, Eva ^a   Konietzki, Sandra ^a   Diederichsen, Elke ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht H G Lembke KG (NPZ Lembke)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biotroph; Development; Gene expression; Hemibiotroph; Necrotroph; Pathogen; Resistance; Senescence; Signaling; Verticillium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984816156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22237747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/plants4030449     Document Type: Review

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