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Plant defence: a new weapon in the arsenal
1Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 220 BioSci. Center, 1445 Gortner Ave., St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|May 17, 2002
Abstract:
Plants have evolved intricate defence mechanisms to cope with the wide array of microbial pathogens they encounter. The identification of Sgt1 as an essential component of R gene-mediated disease resistance suggests that the ubiquitin protein degradation pathway plays an important role in plant defence.