Expression analysis of Arabidopsis ein2 and bak1 mutants treated with the elicitors elf18 and Pep2.

Recognition of microbial patterns and host derived damage signals by host pattern recognition receptors is a key step in immune activation in multicellular eukaryotes. Here we show how mutations in ethylene signaling and the coreceptor bak1 affect host immune responses triggered by elicitors. A 51 DNA microarray study using total RNA from Arabidopsis mutants (ein2-1, bak1-3, efr-1 and pepr1-1 pepr2-3) as well as wild type treated with elf18 or Pep2 with three biological replicates.