Identification and Characterization of the Defensin-Like Gene Family of Grapevine

Defensins are a class of small and diverse cysteine-rich proteins found in plants, insects, and vertebrates, which share a common tertiary structure and usually exert broad-spectrum antimicrobial activities. We used a bioinformatic approach to scan the Vitis vinifera genome and identified 79 defensi...

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Main Authors: Lisa Giacomelli, Valentina Nanni, Luisa Lenzi, Jun Zhuang, Mauro Dalla Serra, Mark J. Banfield, Christopher D. Town, Kevin A. T. Silverstein, Elena Baraldi, Claudio Moser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The American Phytopathological Society 2012-08-01
Series:Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Online Access:https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-12-11-0323