Plant signalling in symbiosis and immunity

Nature

Volumn 543, Issue 7645, 2017, Pages 328-336

  Zipfel, Cyril ^a   Oldroyd, Giles E D ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYTOPLASMIC RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CERK1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COLONIZATION; GROWTH; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PATHOGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYTOPLASM; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85015652617     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature22009     Document Type: Review

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