Week of Oct 20

PlP692

R genes: Pathogen recognition and downstream signaling

Assignments

Monday 

• Belkhadir, Y., Subramaniam, R. & Dangl, J. L. (2004) Plant disease resistance protein signaling: NBS-LRR proteins and their partners Current Opinion in Plant Biology 7, 391-399.
• Martin, G. B., Bogdanove, A. J. & Sessa, G. (2003) Understanding the functions of plant disease resistance proteins Annu Rev Plant Biol 54, 23-61.

Wednesday

Lecture

• Iyer-Pascuzzi, A. S. and S. R. McCouch (2007). "Recessive resistance genes and the Oryza sativa-Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae pathosystem." Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 20(7): 731-739.

For discussion:

• Yang, B., Sugio, A., and White, F.F. (2006). Os8N3 is a host disease-susceptibility gene for bacterial blight of rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103, 10503-10508. Brian

Friday

• Lorang, J.M., Sweat, T.A., and Wolpert, T.J. (2007). Plant disease susceptibility conferred by a "resistance" gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104, 14861-14866. Greg
• Ishibashi, K., Masuda, K., Naito, S., Meshi, T., and Ishikawa, M. (2007). An inhibitor of viral RNA replication is encoded by a plant resistance gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104, 13833-13838. Charles

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