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Pathogen and drought stress affect cell wall and phytohormone signaling to shape host responses in a sorghum COMT bmr12 mutant.
BMC plant biology - 21 Aug 2021
Khasin Maya, Bernhardson Lois F, O'Neill Patrick M, Palmer Nathan A, Scully Erin D, Sattler Scott E, Funnell-Harris Deanna L
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BACKGROUND: As effects of global climate change intensify, the interaction of biotic and abiotic stresses increasingly threatens current agricultural practices. The secondary cell wall is a vanguard of resistance to these stresses. Fusarium thapsinum (Fusarium stalk rot) and Macrophomina phaseolina (charcoal rot) cause internal damage to the stalks of the drought tolerant C4 grass, sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.)...
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