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Functional analysis of oxidative burst in sugarcane smut-resistant and -susceptible genotypes.
Planta - 1 Apr 2017
Peters Leila P, Carvalho Giselle, Vilhena Milca B, Creste Silvana, Azevedo Ricardo A, Monteiro-Vitorello Claudia B
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MAIN CONCLUSION: Smut pathogen induced an early modulation of the production and scavenging of reactive oxygen species during defence responses in resistant sugarcane that coincided with the developmental stages of fungal growth. Sporisorium scitamineum is the causal agent of sugarcane smut disease. In this study, we characterized sugarcane reactive oxygen species (ROS) metabolism in response to the pathogen in...
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