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Functional conservation of wheat and rice Mlo orthologs in defense modulation to the powdery mildew fungus.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Oct 2002
Elliott Candace, Zhou Fasong, Spielmeyer Wolfgang, Panstruga Ralph, Schulze-Lefert Paul
Abstract excerpt
Homologs of barley Mlo are found in syntenic positions in all three genomes of hexaploid bread wheat, Triticum aestivum, and in rice, Oryza sativa. Candidate wheat orthologs, designated TaMlo-A1, TaMlo-B1, and TaMlo-D1, encode three distinct but highly related proteins that are 88% identical to b...
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