Molecular Aspects of Plant Disease Resistance

About this book

In recent years, our understanding of the mechanisms involved in a plant's resistance to attack by disease, has seen major advances.

Molecular Aspects of Plant Disease Resistance includes contributions from many of the world's leading researchers in the area. Coverage includes the evolution of plant-virus interactions and plant resistance loci, the role of plant secondary metabolites, plant systemic resistance, oomycete genomics, intracellular immune receptors, transcriptional reprogramming, fungal biotrophy, chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions, bacterial Type III effectors and host perception of PAMPs.

Contents

Chapter 1: A personal perspective of the last 40 years of Plant Pathology: Emerging themes, paradigm shifts, and future promise / Michele C. Heath
Chapter 2: Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMP) and PAMP-triggered immunity / Thorsten Nürnberger and Birgit Kemmerling
Chapter 3: Pseudomonas syringae type III-secreted proteins and their activities and effects on plant innate immunity / Byeong-ryool Jeong, Karin van Dijk and James R. Alfano
Chapter 4: Establishment of fungal and oomycete biotrophy / Mark de Jong and Guido van den Ackerveken
Chapter 5: Genome biology cracks enigmas of oomycete plant pathogens / Klaas Bouwmeester, Pieter M.J.A. van Poppel and Francine Govers
Chapter 6: Plant-virus interactions: Defense and counter-defense / Matthew Lewsey, Peter Palukaitis and John Carr
Chapter 7: Marshalling the troops: Intracellular dynamics in plant-pathogen defense / Kristoffer Palma, Marcel Wiermer and Xin Li
Chapter 8: Role of plant secondary metabolites at the host-pathogen interface / Pawel Bednarek & Paul Schulze-Lefert
Chapter 9: Chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions / Axel Mithöfer , Wilhelm Boland and Massimo E. Maffei
Chapter 10: Lipid signals in plant-pathogen interactions / Jyoti Shah and Ratnesh Chaturvedi
Chapter 11: Induced resistance – orchestrating defense mechanisms through cross-talk and priming / Sjoerd van der Ent, Juriaan Ton, Annemart Koorneef and Corné M.J. Pieterse

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Biography

Dr Jane Parker is a Group Leader in the Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions at The Max-Planck Institute of Plant Breeding Research, Cologne and Associate Professor at The Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.