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Science 23 February 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5815, pp. 1088 - 1089
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138991
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PLANT SCIENCE:
Nibbling at the Plant Cell Nucleus

Jeffery L. Dangl

When plants recognize certain pathogens, an activated immune receptor moves to the nucleus where it affects transcription to initiate a successful response.

The author is in the Department of Biology, the Curriculum in Genetics, and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. E-mail: dangl{at}email.unc.edu

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