| Literature DB >> 21856436 |
Anja Kombrink1, Andrea Sánchez-Vallet, Bart P H J Thomma.
Abstract
Despite the deployment of antifungal defence strategies, fungal diseases occur in all types of multicellular organisms. In plants, the role of fungal chitin as pathogen-associated molecular pattern that activates host defence is well established. Interestingly, plants employ homologs of the chitin immune receptors to initiate microbial symbiosis. Accumulating evidence shows that fungal pathogens developed secreted effectors to disarm chitin-triggered host immunity.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21856436 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2011.07.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbes Infect ISSN: 1286-4579 Impact factor: 2.700