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Plant-Pathogen Interactions - Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 11
Edited by Nicholas Talbot
Blackwell
June 2004
Hardback 264 pp ISBN 1405114339
£111.00
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Plant diseases are destructive and threaten virtually any crop grown on a commercial scale. They are kept in
check by plant breeding strategies that have introgressed disease resistance genes into many important crops,
and by the deployment of costly control measures, such as antibiotics and fungicides. However, the capacity
for the agents of plant disease - viruses, bacteria, fungi and oomycetes - to adapt to new conditions, overcoming
disease resistance and becoming resistant to pesticides, is very great. For these reasons, understanding the biology
of plant diseases is essential for the development of durable control strategies.
This volume provides an overview of our current knowledge of plant-pathogen interactions and the establishment
of plant disease, drawing together fundamental new information on plant infection mechanisms and host responses.
The role of molecular signals, gene regulation and the physiology of pathogenic organisms are emphasised, but the
role of the prevailing environment in the conditioning of disease is also discussed.
This is a book for researchers and professionals in plant pathology, cell biology, molecular biology and genetics.
Contents
- Emerging themes in plant-pathogen interactions
Nicholas J. Talbot, University of Exeter, UK
- Tobacco mosaic virus
John Carr, University of Cambridge, UK
- Infection with potyviruses
Minna-Liisa Rajamäki, Tuula Mäki-Valkama, Kristiina Mäkinen and Jari Valkonen, Department of Applied Biology, University of Helsinki, Finland
- The Ralstonia solanacearum-plant interaction
Christian Boucher and Stéphane Genin, CNRS - INRA, Castanet Tolosa, France
- The Pseudomonas syringae-bean interaction
Susan S. Hirano and Christen D. Upper, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
- Fungal pathogenesis in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe Grisea
Chaoyang Xue, Lei Li, Kyeyong Seong and Jin-Rong Xu, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- The Ustilago maydis-maize interaction
Maria D. Garcia-Pedrajas, Steven J. Klosterman, David L. Andrews and Scott E. Gold, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
- Blumeria graminis f. sp hordei, an obligate pathogen of barley
Maike Both and Pietro D. Spanu, Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK
- The Phytophthora infestans-potato interaction
Pieter van West, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, UK and Vivianne G.A.A.Vleeshouwers, Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
References
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