The hijacking of a receptor kinase-driven pathway by a wheat fungal pathogen leads to disease

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Shi, Gongjun ^a   Zhang, Zengcui ^b   Friesen, Timothy L ^a,b   Raats, Dina ^c   Fahima, Tzion ^c   Brueggeman, Robert S ^a   Lu, Shunwen ^b   Trick, Harold N ^d   Liu, Zhaohui ^a   Chao, Wun ^b   Frenkel, Zeev ^c   Xu, Steven S ^b   Rasmussen, Jack B ^a   Faris, Justin D ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; ENZYMES;

COMPLEX NATURE; FUNGAL PATHOGEN; MOLECULAR PATHWAYS; PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOGEN RESISTANCE; POSITIONAL CLONING; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATHS; RECEPTOR KINASE;

PATHOGENS;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE; PLANT PROTEIN;

ASCOMYCETES; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WHEAT;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRITICUM;

EID: 85008431400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600822     Document Type: Article

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