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Unraveling regulatory networks in plant defense using microarrays

Owen Rowland and Jonathan DG Jones*

Author Affiliations

Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK

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Genome Biology 2001, 2:reviews1001-reviews1001.3 doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-1-reviews1001

Published: 3 January 2001

Abstract

DNA microarrays are being used to comprehensively examine gene expression networks during the plant defense response that is triggered when a plant encounters a pathogen or an elicitor molecule. In addition to identifying new genes induced during defense, these studies are providing new insights into the complex pathways governing defense gene regulation.