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The Plant Journal

The Plant Journal

Volume 12 Issue 1, Pages 1 - 7

Published Online: 6 Feb 2003

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Recognition of bacterial avirulence proteins occurs inside the plant cell: a general phenomenon in resistance to bacterial diseases?
Ulla Bonas 1, * and Guido Van den Ackerveken 1,2
  1 Institut des Sciences Végétales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and   2 Institut für Genetik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Domplatz 1, 06108 Halle, Germany
*For correspondence (fax +33 1 6982 3695; e-mail bonas@isv.cnrs-gif.fr).
Copyright 1997 Blackwell Science Ltd and the Society for Experimental Biology

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One of the recent exciting developments in the research area of plant-microbe interactions is a breakthrough in understanding part of the initial signalling between avirulent Gram-negative bacteria and resistant plants. For resistance to occur, both interacting organisms need to express matching genes, the plant resistance gene and the bacterial avirulence gene. The biochemical function of bacterial avirulence genes and the nature of the signal molecules recognized by the plant have been a mystery for a long time. Recently, several laboratories have shown that bacterial avirulence proteins function as elicitors that are perceived within the plant cell.


Received 13 March 1997; revised 13 May 1997; accepted 13 May 1997.

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10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.12010001.x About DOI

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