Host-induced silencing of Fusarium culmorum genes protects wheat from infection

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 67, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 4979-4991

  Chen, Wanxin ^a   Kastner, Christine ^a   Nowara, Daniela ^a   Oliveira Garcia, Ely ^b   Rutten, Twan ^a   Zhao, Yusheng ^a   Deising, Holger B ^b   Kumlehn, Jochen ^a   Schweizer, Patrick ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barley stripe mosaic virus; chitin synthase; HIGS; lipase; MAP kinase; 1,3 glucan synthase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

BACTERIAL GENE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUSARIUM; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUSARIUM; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; TRITICUM;

EID: 84988345500     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw263     Document Type: Article

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