Table 2 Annotation of Ra-induced genes homologous to Arabidopsis genes that are involved in R-gene-triggered resistance in PCD pathway

Protein kinase

R proteins as regulatory adaptors in plant apotosomes

Leucine Rich Repeat transmembrane protein

4

Torres et al. (2006); Hofius et al. (2007) [56, 47]

Serine-theorine protein kinases (CIPK1, Pit1, Mak)

3

Schwachtje et al. (2006); Hofius et al. (2007) [16, 47]

Receptor-like kinase (ERECTA)

1

Chen et al. (2003) [49]

Glycoprotein

1

Wycoff et al. (1995) [48]

Oxidative & electrophilic stress

3

Signal activators in tranduction network of HR-related PCD

Zhang and Kirkham (1994); Arner and Holmgren (2000); Laloi et al. (2001); Heinemann et al. (2008); Zhu et al. (2008) [60, 57, 58, 34, 66]

NTRA,CAT2, Peroxidase

Channel activators

4

Gelli et al. (1997); Nurnberger et al. (2004); Zimmermann et al. (1997); Galon et al. (2008) [52, 51, 53, 37]

CAMTA3, KT, POT, H⁺ ATPase

Lignin-associated genes

3

DRP, Peroxidase , RALF23

Franssen and Bisseling (2001); Pearce et al. (2001); Navarro et al. (2004) [19, 84, 35]

GTPases

2

(Rab-like small GTPase, FfG SRP GTPase)

Ono et al. (2001); Cheung et al. (2008) [110, 111]

Chloroplast target gene

1

CPOX

Ishigawa (2005) [27]

Ubiquitin-proteosome system

7

Modulators of R-gene-triggered resistance

Zou et al. (2006);Liu et al. (2002); Shirasu et al. (2003); Ren et al. (2005); Stone et al. (2006); Kawasaki et al. (2005); Taupp et al. (2008). [9, 28, 67, 71, 30, 70, 32]

HSP90, CSN3, CUL1, KEG, C3HC4-type Ring Finger, UBQ3, PMF1

Stress responsive hormones

3

R-gene function in hormonal control of PCD activation

Ohtsubo et al. (1999); Ciardi et al. (2001); Desikan et al. (2001); Kim et al. (2003); Hudgins et al. (2004) [73, 74, 77, 38, 12]

ACC oxidase, MBP1, CAMTA3

Phosphatidic acid precursors

2

Modulators of lipid-based signals in PCD

Smith et al. (2004); Chen et al., 2007; Ramina et al. (2007) [42, 49, 18]

PLC, PLD