Identification of the putative plant-functional equivalent of double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase R.

Viruses constantly challenge plants; in response, plants have evolved a number of defense systems that protect them or reduce the severity of the virus invasion. Translational inhibition, an innate antiviral defense mechanism that is utilised by, and most studied in, mammals, is proposed also to exi...

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Main Author: Chan, Elaine
Other Authors: MacDiarmid, Robin.
Published: ResearchSpace@Auckland 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2292/5678