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Overexpression of a soybean salicylic acid methyltransferase gene confers resistance to soybean cyst nematode.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Dec 2013
Lin Jingyu, Mazarei Mitra, Zhao Nan, Zhu Junwei J, Zhuang Xiaofeng, Liu Wusheng, Pantalone Vincent R, Arelli Prakash R, Stewart Charles N, Chen Feng
Abstract excerpt
Salicylic acid plays a critical role in activating plant defence responses after pathogen attack. Salicylic acid methyltransferase (SAMT) modulates the level of salicylic acid by converting salicylic acid to methyl salicylate. Here, we report that a SAMT gene from soybean (GmSAMT1) plays a role in soybean defence against soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines Ichinohe, SCN). GmSAMT1 was identified as a...
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