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Published on: September 9, 2009
Signal recognition and transduction involved in plant disease resistance
1Department of Agronomy, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1150, USA.
Abstract:
Gene-for-gene relationships, in which plant disease resistance involves a single resistance (R) gene in the plant which responds specifically to a single avirulence (avr) gene in the pathogen, have been described in numerous plant-pathogen interactions. R genes encode proteins that appear to be involved in both recognition of the pathogen and in signal transduction. Physical interaction of R gene products and Avr proteins provides an explanation for the molecular basis of some gene-for-gene interactions. Multiple signalling pathways lie downstream of R gene products and lead to the hypersensitive response and activation of specific defence-related genes. Plants use diverse mechanisms to defend themselves from pathogens including the generation of active oxygen species, cell wall strengthening, production of defence-related proteins and localized cell death.
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