Transcriptomic analysis reveals tomato genes whose expression is induced specifically during effector-triggered immunity and identifies the Epk1 protein kinase which is required for the host response to three bacterial effector proteins

Table 1 Summary of the experiments performed for the RNA-Seq analysis

Plant	Strain	Concentration	Time point
Tomato	DC3000 ΔfliC^a	5 × 10⁶Δcfu/ml	6 h
RG-PtoR^b	DC3000 ΔavrPto ΔavrPtoB^c
RG-PtoR^b	DC3000 ΔavrPto ΔavrPtoB ΔfliC^d

^aPseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) DC3000 mutant, lacking flagellin. ^bTomato Rio Grande-PtoR plants (Pto/Pto, Prf/Prf). ^cPst DC3000 mutant, lacking AvrPto and AvrPtoB effectors. ^dPst DC3000 mutant, lacking AvrPto, AvrPtoB and flagellin.

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