This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30930063 and 30921091) and the National Program of Transgenic Variety Development of China (2008ZX08009-004). No conflict of interest declared.
The rice Xa13 gene, whose promoter harbors a UPT (up-regulated by transcription activator-like [TAL] effector) box, UPTpthXol, plays a pivotal role in the race-specific pathogenicity caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv....
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.30930063);the National Program of High Technology Development of China (Grant No.2006AA10A103)
Despite the importance of quantitative disease resistance during a plant’s life, little is known about the molecular basis of this type of host-pathogen interaction, because most of the genes underlying resistance qu...