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Two mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling cascades mediate basal resistance to antifungal plant defensins in Fusarium graminearum.
Cellular microbiology - 1 Jun 2007
Ramamoorthy Vellaisamy, Zhao Xinhua, Snyder Anita K, Xu Jin-Rong, Shah Dilip M
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Antifungal defensins, MsDef1 and MtDef4, from Medicago spp., inhibit the growth of Fusarium graminearum, which causes head blight disease in cereals. In order to determine the signalling cascades that are modulated by these defensins, we have isolated several insertional mutants of F. graminearum that exhibit hypersensitivity to MsDef1, but not to MtDef4. The molecular characterization of two of these mutants,...
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