Structural and phylogenetic analysis of Pto-type disease resistance gene candidates in Hevea brasiliensis
“Structural and phylogenetic analysis of Pto-type disease resistance gene candidates in Hevea brasiliensis”, vol. 13, pp. 4348-4360, 2014.
, The tomato Pto gene encodes a serine/threonine kinase (STK) whose molecular characterization has provided valuable insights into the disease resistance mechanism of tomato. Therefore, Pto is considered as a promising candidate for engineering broad-spectrum pathogen resistance in this crop. In this study, a pair of degenerate primers based on conserved subdomains of plant STKs similar to the tomato Pto protein was used to amplify similar sequences in a hevea cultivar (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg).