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A P-type ATPase required for rice blast disease and induction of host resistance.
Nature - 23 Mar 2006
Gilbert Martin J, Thornton Christopher R, Wakley Gavin E, Talbot Nicholas J
Abstract excerpt
To cause diseases in plants, pathogenic microorganisms have evolved mechanisms to deliver proteins directly into plant cells, where they suppress plant defences and facilitate tissue invasion. How plant pathogenic fungi, which cause many of the world's most serious plant diseases, deliver proteins during plant infection is currently unknown. Here we report the characterization of a P-type ATPase-encoding gene,...
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