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Role Of Glycerol-3-Phosphate Permeases In Plant Defense, Juliana Moreira Soares
Role Of Glycerol-3-Phosphate Permeases In Plant Defense, Juliana Moreira Soares
Theses and Dissertations--Plant Pathology
Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a type of plant defense mechanism that is induced after a localized infection and confers broad-spectrum immunity against related or unrelated pathogens. During SAR, a number of chemical signals and proteins generated at the site of primary infection travel to the uninfected tissues and are thought to alert the distal sites against secondary infections. Glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P) is one of the chemical signals that play an important role in SAR. G3P is synthesized in the cytosol and chloroplasts via the enzymatic activities of G3P Dehydrogenase (G3Pdh) or Glycerol Kinase (GK). Interestingly, a mutation in three of …