Genotype-dependent expression of specific members of potato protease inhibitor gene families in different tissues and in response to wounding and nematode infection.

Abstract excerpt

Protease inhibitors (PIs) are small ubiquitous proteins with a variety of biological functions in plants, including protein stabilization, modulation of apoptosis and defense against pathogens. Kunitz-like inhibitors (PKPIs) and proteinase inhibitors 1 (PI-1) are abundant in storage organs of potato plants and are up-regulated in other tissues in response to biotic and abiotic stress. However, little information...

Topics

• Animals
• Base Sequence
• DNA, Complementary
• Gene Expression Profiling
• Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
• Genes, Plant
• Genotype
• Immunity, Innate
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Multigene Family
• Phylogeny
• Plant Diseases
• Plant Leaves