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BcIEB1, a Botrytis cinerea secreted protein, elicits a defense response in plants.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Sept 2016
Frías Marcos, González Mario, González Celedonio, Brito Nélida
Abstract excerpt
BcIEB1 is a very abundant protein in the secretome of Botrytis cinerea but it has no known function and no similarity to any characterized protein family. Previous results suggested that this protein is an elicitor of the plant defense system. In this work we have generated loss-of-function B. cinerea mutants lacking BcIEB1 and we have expressed the protein in yeast to assay its activity on plants. Analysis of...
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