DC1 DOMAIN PROTEINS INVOLVED IN DEFENSE RESPONSE AND FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE DEVELOPMENT IN Arabidopsis thaliana

PAGNUSSAT, G.; CASALONGUE, C.; FIOL, D. F.

Potrero de los Funes, San Luis

Congreso; XLVII Reunión Anual SAIB; 2011

SAIB

Disease resistance and reproductive development are two major aspects of the plant life cycle. Although these processes have been traditionally considered as independent and regulated by different groups of genes, new findings have linked defense related proteins to different aspects of plant development. In this work, we identified two genes containing a DC1 domain, named AtDC1 and AtDC2, whose expression showed to be highly upregulated upon microbial elicitors and biotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana plants.