1. Transcription factors involved in plant resistance to pathogens
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João Pacífico Bezerra Neto, Sergio Crovella, Lidiane Lindinalva Barbosa Amorim, Mauro Guida-Santos, Romulo da Fonseca dos Santos, Ana Maria Benko-Iseppon, Amorim, Lidiane L. B., da Fonseca dos Santos, Romulo, Pacífico Bezerra Neto, Joao, Guida-Santos, Mauro, Crovella, Sergio, and Maria Benko-Iseppon, Ana
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Transcription, Genetic ,Interaction ,Interactions ,Plant Immunity ,Plant disease resistance ,Biology ,01 natural sciences ,DNA-binding protein ,Biochemistry ,03 medical and health sciences ,Biotic stress ,Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ,Stress, Physiological ,Protein Interaction Mapping ,Protein Isoforms ,Transcription factor ,Pathogen ,Crosstalk ,Molecular Biology ,Disease Resistance ,Plant Diseases ,Plant Proteins ,Plant defense genes ,Cell Biology ,Genetics ,Ecology ,Arabidopsis Proteins ,fungi ,food and beverages ,General Medicine ,Plants ,Plants, Genetically Modified ,WRKY protein domain ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,030104 developmental biology ,Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors ,Biotic stre ,Host-Pathogen Interactions ,Plant defense gene ,Signal transduction ,010606 plant biology & botany ,Signal Transduction ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Phytopathogenic microorganisms have a significant influence on survival and productivity of several crop plants. Transcription factors (TFs) are important players in the response to biotic stresses, as insect attack and pathogen infection. In face of such adversities many TFs families have been previously reported as differentially expressed in plants as a reaction to bacterial, fungal and viral infection. This review highlights recent progresses in understanding the structure, function, signal regulation and interaction of transcription factors with other proteins in response to pathogens. Hence, we focus on three families of transcription factors: ERF, bZIP and WRKY, due to their abundance, importance and the availability of functionally well-characterized members in response to pathogen attack. Their roles and the possibilities related to the use of this knowledge for engineering pathogen resistance in crop plants are also discussed.
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- 2017