Not exact matches
Martin and his colleagues worked with postdoctoral researcher Christopher Clarke and Professor Boris Vinatzer at Virginia Tech, who previously identified flgII - 28 as a conserved segment of the
flagellin protein that tomatoes can
detect.
FLS3
detects a part of the flagellum, a tail - like appendage that helps bacteria swim through their environment and consists mostly of
flagellin proteins.
The first, called FLS2, is found in most land plants and
detects invading bacteria by recognizing a separate region of
flagellin called flg22.