Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

✍ Scribed by Kamal Bouarab, Normand Brisson, Fouad Daayf

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Plants have evolved both general and highly specialized defence mechanisms that function to prevent diseases caused by the majority of microbial pathogens they encounter. Highly specialized defence is governed by specific interactions between pathogen avr (avirulence) genes' loci and alleles of the corresponding plant disease resistance (R) loci. These defences can be very dynamic as microbes from the same species can act differently in their co-evolution with the specific host plant, which in turn has similarly evolved its response to external threats.There have been major developments in the field of plant-microbe interactions in recent years, due to newly developed techniques and the availability of genomic information. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions explores these new discoveries, focusing primarily on the mechanisms controlling plant disease resistance, the cross-talk among the pathways involved and the strategies used by the pathogens to suppress these defences. By exploring developments in plant defences, pathogen's counter-defences and mutually beneficial plant-microbe interactions, this book will be useful for researchers and students in plant pathology and plant biology-related areas. Related TitlesPhytoplasmas: Genomes, Plant Hosts and VectorsEdited by P.G. Weintraub and P. Jones2009 c.384 pages 978 1 84593 530 6Advances in Mycorrhizal Science and TechnologyEdited by D.P. Khasa, Y. Piché and A.P. Coughlin2009 c.200 pages 978 1 84593 586 3Mycotoxins: Detection Methods, Management, Public Health and Agricultural TradeEdited by J. Leslie, R. Bandyopadhyay and A. Visconti2008 512 pages 978 1 84593 082 0

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1 Plant RNA-silencing Immunity and Viral Counter-defence Strategies......Page 14
2 Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Plant Defence Responses......Page 51
3 Molecular Mechanisms of the Radical Burst in Plant Immunity......Page 74
4 Disease Resistance in Arabidopsis, Starring TGA2 and also Featuring NPR1......Page 90
5 Disease Resistance Genes: Form and Function......Page 109
6 Transcription Factor Families Involved in Plant Defence: from Discovery to Structure......Page 157
7 Cross Talk Between Induced Plant Immune Systems......Page 178
8 The Needle and the Damage Done: Type III Effectors and the Plant Immune Response......Page 194
9 Virulence Determinants and the Global Regulation of Virulence in Xanthomonas campestris......Page 226
10 Suppression of Induced Plant Defence Responses by Fungal and Oomycete Pathogens......Page 246
11 Sustainable Agriculture and the Multigenomic Model: How Advances in the Genetics of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi will Change Soil Management Practices......Page 284
12 Microbial Traits Associated with Actinobacteria Interacting with Plants......Page 303
13 Insight into Fusarium Cereal Pathogenesis......Page 334
C......Page 352
H......Page 353
R......Page 354
Y......Page 355