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SUBMITTER: Viterbo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1266020 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Viterbo Ada A Harel Michal M Horwitz Benjamin A BA Chet Ilan I Mukherjee Prasun K PK
Applied and environmental microbiology 20051001 10
The role of a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) TmkA in inducing systemic resistance in cucumber against the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. lacrymans was investigated by using tmkA loss-of-function mutants of Trichoderma virens. In an assay where Trichoderma spores were germinated in proximity to cucumber roots, the mutants were able to colonize the plant roots as effectively as the wild-type strain but failed to induce full systemic resistance against the leaf pathogen. Inter ...[more]