Arabidopsis as a model host for studying plant-pathogen interactions.
Because the molecular biology and genetics of Arabidopsis thaliana are so well defined, it is potentially a superb subject for research on plant-pathogen interactions. Viruses, bacteria and fungi that infect Arabidopsis and are representative pathogens of economically important plants have recently been described. The search now is for a pathogenic fungus with tractable genetics to combine with a direct analysis of plant resistance genes.
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Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Zürich, Switzerland.
Slusarenko
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D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D009868:Oomycetes / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity