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Characterization of necrosis-inducing NLP proteins in Phytophthora capsici.
BMC plant biology - 8 May 2014
Feng Bao-Zhen, Zhu Xiao-Ping, Fu Li, Lv Rong-Fei, Storey Dylan, Tooley Paul, Zhang Xiu-Guo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Effector proteins function not only as toxins to induce plant cell death, but also enable pathogens to suppress or evade plant defense responses. NLP-like proteins are considered to be effector proteins, and they have been isolated from bacteria, fungi, and oomycete plant pathogens. There is increasing evidence that NLPs have the ability to induce cell death and ethylene accumulation in plants....
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