Plant chitinase/lysozyme isoforms show distinct substrate specificity and cleavage site preference towards lipochitooligosaccharide Nod signals

A classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities

1991 • 3,115 citations

New families in the classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities

1993 • 1,995 citations

Antifungal Hydrolases in Pea Tissue

1988 • 1,183 citations

Symbiotic host-specificity of Rhizobium meliloti is determined by a sulphated and acylated glucosamine oligosaccharide signal

1990 • 1,116 citations

Transgenic Plants with Enhanced Resistance to the Fungal Pathogen Rhizoctonia solani

1991 • 986 citations

RHIZOBIUM LIPO-CHITOOLIGOSACCHARIDE NODULATION FACTORS: Signaling Molecules Mediating Recognition and Morphogenesis

1996 • 940 citations

Plant chitinases are potent inhibitors of fungal growth

1986 • 925 citations

Plant chitinases

1993 • 859 citations

Plant ‘pathogenesis-related’ proteins and their role in defense against pathogens

1993 • 673 citations

Chitinase in bean leaves: induction by ethylene, purification, properties, and possible function

1983 • 652 citations

Enhanced quantitative resistance against fungal disease by combinatorial expression of different barley antifungal proteins in transgenic tobacco

1995 • 560 citations

Biological function of pathogenesis-related proteins: Four tobacco pathogenesis-related proteins are chitinases

1987 • 532 citations

REGULATION OF SYMBIOTIC ROOT NODULE DEVELOPMENT

1998 • 511 citations

Enhanced Protection Against Fungal Attack by Constitutive Co–expression of Chitinase and Glucanase Genes in Transgenic Tobacco

1994 • 479 citations

A carrot somatic embryo mutant is rescued by chitinase.

1992 • 395 citations

Genetic Engineering of Rice for Resistance to Sheath Blight

1995 • 347 citations

Chitinase, beta-1,3-glucanase, osmotin, and extensin are expressed in tobacco explants during flower formation.

1990 • 344 citations

Pathogenesis-related proteins are developmentally regulated in tobacco flowers.

1989 • 286 citations

Rhizobium meliloti produces a family of sulfated lipooligosaccharides exhibiting different degrees of plant host specificity.

1992 • 260 citations

Isolation and characterization of genes encoding two chitinase enzymes from Serratia marcescens

1986 • 255 citations

Field tolerance to fungal pathogens of Brassica napus constitutively expressing a chimeric chitinase gene

1996 • 254 citations

Root Hair Deformation Activity of Nodulation Factors and Their Fate on Vicia sativa

1994 • 244 citations

Rhizobium Lipooligosaccharides Rescue a Carrot Somatic Embryo Mutant.

1993 • 232 citations

A new class of tobacco chitinases homologous to bacterial exo-chitinases displays antifungal activity

1994 • 223 citations

High-level expression of a tobacco chitinase gene in Nicotiana sylvestris. Susceptibility of transgenic plants to Cercospora nicotianae infection

1991 • 212 citations

A Novel Pathogen- and Wound-Inducible Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Protein with Antifungal Activity

1994 • 206 citations

Perception of Rhizobium nodulation factors by tomato cells and inactivation by root chitinases.

1994 • 196 citations

A revised nomenclature for chitinase genes

1996 • 194 citations

Glycosylation

1992 • 186 citations

Leaf senescence in Brassica napus: expression of genes encoding pathogenesis-related proteins

1996 • 181 citations

Purification, characterization and differential hormonal regulation of a ?-1,3-glucanase and two chitinases from chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

1993 • 167 citations

Research NotesColonization of TransgenicNicotiana sylvestrisPlants, Expressing Different Forms ofNicotiana tabacumChitinase, by the Root PathogenRhizoctonia solaniand by the Mycorrhizal SymbiontGlomus mosseae

1993 • 152 citations

Structural modifications in Rhizobium meliloti Nod factors influence their stability against hydrolysis by root chitinases

1994 • 152 citations

Chitinases, chitosanases, and lysozymes can be divided into procaryotic and eucaryotic families sharing a conserved core

1996 • 152 citations

Substrate specificities of tobacco chitinases

1998 • 138 citations

Plant chitinases use two different hydrolytic mechanisms

1996 • 123 citations

An Acidic Class III Chitinase in Sugar Beet: Induction byCercospora beticola,Characterization, and Expression in Transgenic Tobacco Plants

1993 • 109 citations

Structural and Evolutionary Relationships Among Chitinases of Flowering Plants

1997 • 105 citations

Structural similarity of plant chitinase and lysozymes from animals and phage

1994 • 89 citations

Lipo-chitooligosaccharide Nodulation Signals from Rhizobium meliloti Induce Their Rapid Degradation by the Host Plant Alfalfa

1995 • 81 citations

Plant chitinase genes

1994 • 78 citations

Characterzation of chitinases able to rescue somatic embryos of the temperature-sensitive carrot variantts11

1996 • 77 citations

Stereochemical course of the hydrolysis reaction catalyzed by chitinases Al and D from Bacillus circulans WL‐12

1994 • 76 citations

Kinetic Analysis of Barley Chitinase

1997 • 73 citations

Attempted localization of a substrate for chitinases in plant cells reveals abundant N‐acetyl‐<scp>d</scp>‐glucosamine residues in secondary walls

1989 • 69 citations

Alteration of plant growth and development by Rhizobium nodA and nodB genes involved in the synthesis of oligosaccharide signal molecules

1993 • 69 citations

A hydroxyproline-containing class IV chitinase of sugar beet is glycosylated with xylose

1994 • 62 citations

Involvement of plant chitinase in sexual reproduction of higher plants

1992 • 59 citations

Molecular characterization of a novel tobacco pathogenesis-related (PR) protein: a new plant chitinase/lysozyme

1994 • 56 citations

Structure of Endochitinase Genes from Sugar Beets

1992 • 52 citations

Pathogenesis-Related Proteins Are Developmentally Regulated in Tobacco Flowers

1989 • 50 citations

Rhizobial Lipo-oligosaccharide Signals and Their Role in Plant Morphogenesis; Are Analogous Lipophilic ChitinDerivatives Produced by the Plant?

1993 • 46 citations

Purification and characterization of a novel chitinase–lysozyme, of another chitinase, both hydrolysing Rhizobium meliloti Nod factors, and of a pathogenesis-related protein from Medicago sativa roots

1998 • 44 citations

Attempted localization of a substrate for chitinases in plant cells reveals abundant ? residues in secondary walls

1989 • 41 citations

A new class of tobacco chitinases homologous to bacterial exo-chitinases displays antifungal activity

1994 • 38 citations

Plant lysozymes

1996 • 33 citations

Effect of chitinase antisense RNA expression on disease susceptibility of Arabidopsis plants

1994 • 29 citations