The soft-rot disease caused by Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora (Ecc) is one of the three major diseases of Chinese cabbage. It causes severe reduction in the production of several species of plants. The understanding of the resistance mechanism is of great importance to construct plants resistant to Ecc infection. In this work, expression sequence tags (ESTs) were analyzed in the process of Ecc pathogenesis to understand the resistance mechanism at global transcriptional level.
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