Overview
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.
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Author: Kamal Bouarab (Biology Department, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) , Carole Beaulieu (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) , Normand Brisson (Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal, Canada) , Charles Despres (Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, Canada)
Publisher: CABI Publishing
Imprint: CABI Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 17.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.960kg
ISBN: 9781845935740
ISBN 10: 1845935748
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 16 September 2009
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Plant RNA-silencing Immunity and Viral Counter-defence Strategies - Santiago Wadsworth and Patrice Dunoyer Chapter 2: Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Plant Defence Responses - Fengming Song, Huijuan Zhang and Shuqun Zhang Chapter 3: Molecular Mechanisms of the Radical Burst in Plant Immunity - Hirofumi Yoshioka, Shuta Asai, Noriko Miyagawa, Tatsushi Ichikawa, Miki Yoshioka, and Michie Kobayashi Chapter 4: Disease Resistance in Arabidopsis, Starring TGA2 and also Featuring NPR1 - Patrick Boyle, Pierre R. Fobert, and Charles Després Chapter 5: Disease Resistance Genes: Form and Function - Melanie A. Sacco and Peter Moffett Chapter 6: Transcription Factor Families Involved in Plant Defence: From Discovery to Structure - Jean-Sébastien Parent, Laurent Cappadocia, Alexandre Maréchal, Pierre R. Fobert, Normand Brisson Chapter 7: Cross Talk Between Induced Plant Immune Systems - González-Lamothe Rocío, El Oirdi Mohamed, Abd El Rahman Taha, Sansregret Raphaël, Bathily Hamed and Bouarab Kamal Chapter 8: The Needle and the Damage Done: Type III Effectors and the Plant Immune Response - Jennifer D. Lewis, Karl Schreiber and Darrell Desveaux Chapter 9: Virulence Determinants and the Global Regulation of Virulence in Xanthomonas campestris - Adrián A. Vojnov, J. Maxwell Dow, Kamal Bouarab Chapter 10: Suppression of Induced Plant Defence Responses by Fungal and Oomycete Pathogens - Abdelbasset El Hadrami, Ismail El Hadrami, and Fouad Daayf Chapter 11: Sustainable Agriculture and the AMF Multigenomic Model: How Advances in AMF Genetics will Change Soil Management Practices - Erin Zimmerman, Marc St-Arnaud, and Mohamed Hijri Chapter 12: Microbial Traits Associated with Actinobacteria Interacting with Plants - Anne-Marie Simao-Beaunoir, Sébastien Roy, Carole Beaulieu Chapter 13: Insight into Fusarium-cereal Pathogenesis - Rajagopal Subramaniam, Charles G. Nasmith, Linda J. Harris and Thérèse Ouellet
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Dr. Kamal Bouarab is at the Department of Biology, University of Sherbrooke, where he teaches phytopathology and plant molecular biology. His research program focuses on the molecular mechanisms controlling plant innate immunity and strategies used by pathogens to overcome this immunity and cause diseases. Dr. Normand Brisson is at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Montréal, where he teaches molecular genetics. For the last 25 years he has maintained an active research program on the molecular mechanisms that control plant gene expression in response to infection by pathogens. His work has led to a better understanding on how gene activators and repressors contribute to the fine regulation of plant defense genes. Dr. Fouad Daayf is Associate Head at the Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, where he teaches fundamentals of horticulture and molecular plant-microbe interactions. His research program focuses on biochemical and molecular mechanisms of plant-microbe interactions, with an emphasis on plant defense reactions and the mechanisms of their suppression by pathogens, mechanisms of biological control of plant diseases, and the role of secondary metabolites in defense and defense signaling.
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