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The heterotrimeric G protein alpha subunit acts upstream of the small GTPase Rac in disease resistance of rice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Oct 2002
Suharsono Utut, Fujisawa Yukiko, Kawasaki Tsutomu, Iwasaki Yukimoto, Satoh Hikaru, Shimamoto Ko
Abstract excerpt
We used rice dwarf1 (d1) mutants lacking a single-copy Galpha gene and addressed Galpha's role in disease resistance. d1 mutants exhibited a highly reduced hypersensitive response to infection by an avirulent race of rice blast. Activation of PR gene expression in the leaves of the mutants infected with rice blast was delayed for 24 h relative to the wild type. H(2)O(2) production and PR gene expression induced...
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