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Mesfin Tesfaye
Contributed equally to this work with: Mesfin Tesfaye, Kevin AT. Silverstein
Current address: Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Kevin AT. Silverstein
Contributed equally to this work with: Mesfin Tesfaye, Kevin AT. Silverstein
Current address: Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Sumitha Nallu
Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Lin Wang
Current address: Enterprise Institute for Renewable Fuels, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Christopher J. Botanga
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
S. Karen Gomez
Affiliation: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Liliana M. Costa
Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Maria J. Harrison
Affiliation: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Deborah A. Samac
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service-Plant Science Research Unit, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Jane Glazebrook
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Fumiaki Katagiri
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Jose F. Gutierrez-Marcos
Affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Kathryn A. VandenBosch
Current address: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Introduction
Defensins are a large family of endogenous antimicrobial polypeptides present in most eukaryotic life forms [1], [2]. These small, charged, cysteine-rich polypeptides are secreted or sequestered within compartments of the endomembrane system and have broad-spectrum anti-fungal,...