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Prunus Domestica Pathogenesis-Related Protein-5 Activates The Defense Response Pathway And Enhances The Resistance To Fungal Infection, Ashraf El-Kereamy, Islam El-Sharkawy, Rengasamy Ramamoorthy, Ali Taheri, Deena Errampalli, Prakash Kumar, Subramanian Jayasankar
Prunus Domestica Pathogenesis-Related Protein-5 Activates The Defense Response Pathway And Enhances The Resistance To Fungal Infection, Ashraf El-Kereamy, Islam El-Sharkawy, Rengasamy Ramamoorthy, Ali Taheri, Deena Errampalli, Prakash Kumar, Subramanian Jayasankar
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research
Pathogenesis-related protein-5 (PR-5) has been implicated in plant disease resistance and its antifungal activity has been demonstrated in some fruit species. However, their roles, especially their interactions with the other defense responses in plant cells, are still not fully understood. In this study, we have cloned and characterized a new PR-5 cDNA named PdPR5-1 from the European plum (Prunus domestica). Expression of PdPR5-1 was studied in different cultivars varying in resistance to the brown rot disease caused by the necrotrophic fungus Monilinia fructicola. In addition transgenic Arabidopsis, ectopically expressing PdPR5-1 was used to study its role in other plant defense …