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CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 335-351Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1389203717666160619185308
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Plant defense genes; biotic stress; interactions; crosstalk
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Ciencia e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco (FACEPE)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
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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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