Recognition and Response in Plant-Virus Interactions

✍ Scribed by R. S. S. Fraser (auth.), Ron S. S. Fraser (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 465
• Series: NATO ASI Series 41
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mechanisms of resistance to plant viruses are diverse, and probably involve different types of recognition events. Often, a cascade of changes affecting broader aspects of defence and metabolism is switched on progressively after the initial recognition event. Virulence, i.e. resistence-breaking behaviour of the virus, involves a failure or alteration of recognition or subsequent signalling. Consequences of these recognition events are the ways in which the pathogenic effects on the host are exerted: formation of visible symptoms and control of plant growth. This volume offers a comprehensive coverage of the recognition and signalling events between plants and viruses whereby the particular attraction of viruses (and viroids) is that they can now be completely defined in molecular terms: they offer excellent opportunities for studying the molecular biology of signalling, and may even provide useful guidelines on how plants and cellular pathogens interact.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Recognition and Response in Plant-Virus Interactions: Some Underlying Concepts....Pages 1-15
Recognition in Resistance to Bacteria....Pages 17-29
Recognition and Response in Plant/Fungus Interactions....Pages 31-52
Specificity and Recognition Events in the Transmission of Plant Viruses by Vectors....Pages 53-70
The Genetics of Plant-Virus Interactions: Mechanisms Controlling Host Range, Resistance and Virulence....Pages 71-91
Plant Virus Epidemiology: The Battle of the Genes....Pages 93-121
Signals and Structures Involved in Early Interactions between Plants and Viruses or Pseudoviruses....Pages 123-145
Genetic Organization, Evolution and Expression of Plant Viral RNA Genomes....Pages 147-162
Replication of Plant RNA Viruses in Vivo in Relation to Virus-Host Interactions....Pages 163-183
Viroid Replication Mechanisms....Pages 185-205
The Movement Protein of Some Plant Viruses....Pages 207-231
Signalling in Viroid Pathogenesis....Pages 233-261
The Molecular Biology of Satellite RNA from Cucumber Mosaic Virus....Pages 263-272
Cryptic Viruses of Beet and Other Plants....Pages 273-286
Plant Growth Regulators, Viruses and Plant Growth....Pages 287-310
Recognition and Disease Development in the Tobacco-TMV System....Pages 311-328
Entry of Tobacco Mosaic Virus RNA into Tobacco Chloroplasts in Vivo and in Vitro ....Pages 329-336
Modifications of the Coat Protein Gene of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Resulting in the Induction of Necrosis....Pages 337-344
Hypersensitivity to Tobacco Mosaic Virus in N’ -Gene Hosts: Which Viral Genes are Involved?....Pages 345-359
Induction of Plant Genes by Compatible and Incompatible Virus-Plant Interactions....Pages 361-373
Defence Proteins, Glycanhydrolases and Oligosaccharide Signals in Plant-Virus Interactions....Pages 375-394
Inhibitor of Virus Replication Associated with Resistance Responses....Pages 395-403
Intercellular Spread of Potato Leafroll Luteovirus: Effects of Co-Infection and Plant Resistance....Pages 405-414
Examination of Mechanisms of Cross Protection with Non-Transgenic Plants....Pages 415-426
Coat Protein-Mediated Protection Against Virus Infection....Pages 427-442
The Use and Misuse of Viruses in Cloning and Expression in Plants....Pages 443-457
Back Matter....Pages 459-470

✦ Subjects

Agriculture; Forestry; Virology; Cell Biology; Plant Sciences; Ecology