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The Arabidopsis gene CAD1 controls programmed cell death in the plant immune system and encodes a protein containing a MACPF domain.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Jun 2005
Morita-Yamamuro Chizuko, Tsutsui Tomokazu, Sato Masanao, Yoshioka Hirofumi, Tamaoki Masanori, Ogawa Daisuke, Matsuura Hideyuki, Yoshihara Teruhiko, Ikeda Akira, Uyeda Ichiro, Yamaguchi Junji
Abstract excerpt
To clarify the processes involved in plant immunity, we have isolated and characterized a single recessive Arabidopsis mutant, cad1 (constitutively activated cell death 1), which shows a phenotype that mimics the lesions seen in the hypersensitive response (HR). This mutant shows spontaneously activated expression of pathogenesis-related (PR) genes, and leading to a 32-fold increase in salicylic acid (SA)....
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