Publication Date:
2014-09-11
Description:
Article Rice stripe virus (RSV) causes a disease in rice with significant economic consequences. Here, the authors clone an RSV-resistant gene in rice and suggest that this gene encodes a sulphotransferase that catalyses the conversion of salicylic acid (SA) into sulphonated salicylic acid, leading to increased SA accumulation in RSV-infected plants and inhibition of viral replication. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms5768 Authors: Qi Wang, Yuqiang Liu, Jun He, Xiaoming Zheng, Jinlong Hu, Yanling Liu, Huimin Dai, Yingxin Zhang, Baoxiang Wang, Weixun Wu, He Gao, Yunhui Zhang, Xiaorong Tao, Huafeng Deng, Dingyang Yuan, Ling Jiang, Xin Zhang, Xiuping Guo, Xianian Cheng, Chuanyin Wu, Haiyang Wang, Longping Yuan, Jianmin Wan
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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