UORF-mediated translation allows engineered plant disease resistance without fitness costs

Nature

Volumn 545, Issue 7655, 2017, Pages 491-494

  Xu, Guoyong ^a   Yuan, Meng ^b   Ai, Chaoren ^b   Liu, Lijing ^a   Zhuang, Edward ^a   Karapetyan, Sargis ^a   Wang, Shiping ^b   Dong, Xinnian ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT NPR1 PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; SNC1 1 RECEPTOR; TBF1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT STRESS TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SNC1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HERB; PATHOGEN; PESTICIDE; PROTEIN; RICE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UPSTREAM OPEN READING FRAME; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ORYZA; PLANT IMMUNITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC FITNESS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85019728719     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature22372     Document Type: Article

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