2011
Understanding the mechanism of soybean bacterial blight by computationally allocating functional mimicry of bacterial virulent effectors to soybeans
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Nebraska Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Crop protectionDiseaseField management
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Chi Zhang, University of Nebraska
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Nebraska Soybean Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
University of Nebraska
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

Pathogen-caused Soybean Diseases result in large economic losses to soybean growers. Soybean bacterial blight is one of the most common diseases of soybeans that can cause up to 20% yield loss. Understanding the intricate interactions between the pathogen and the hosts is a key step towards soybean disease control.

This project will apply a structure-based computational method for mimicry protein search in Pseudomonas syringe pv. glycines (Psg), the causal agent for bacterial blight in soybeans. Mimicry refers to the phenomenon where a pathogen produces a protein that mimics the function of the protein in the host plant so that it can manipulate the host physiology and cellular function...

Unique Keywords:
#bacterial blight, #pseudomonas syringae, #soybean disease interactions, #soybean diseases
Information And Results
Final Project Results

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