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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Lotus japonicus
SUBMITTER: Andres Garriz
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-2000 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
PloS one 20131211 12
Lotus japonicus is a model legume broadly used to study many important processes as nitrogen fixing nodule formation and adaptation to salt stress. However, no studies on the defense responses occurring in this species against invading microorganisms have been carried out at the present. Understanding how this model plant protects itself against pathogens will certainly help to develop more tolerant cultivars in economically important Lotus species as well as in other legumes. In order to uncove ...[more]