Plant-Microbe Interactions

by Gary Stacey, Noel T. Keen

Overview

Scientists are continually making exciting discoveries concerning the interactions between microbes and plants, interactions which may be damaging, in the case of plant pathogens, or beneficial, as in the case of nitrogen fixation. This new volume in the successful and well received Chapman & Hall Plant-Microbe Interaction series is an exciting and broad-ranging view of the outstanding work being done in this area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461377580
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	187
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Molecular Cloning of Plant Disease Resistance Genes.- 2 Transgenic Plants for Disease Control.- 3 Systemic Acquired Resistance.- 4 Interactions of Grasses with Endophytic Epichloë Species and Hybrids.- 5 Pathogenesis and Sexual Development of the Smut Fungi.- 6 Current Concepts in the Use of Introduced Bacteria for Biological Disease Control: Mechanisms and Antifungal Metabolites.- 7 Legume Signals to Rhizobial Symbionts: A New Approach for Defining Rhizosphere Colonization.- 8 Nodulation Factors.

Editorial Reviews

Explores microbial plant pathogens and symbionts and the responses that they elicit on their plant hosts. Topics include genes of , molecular techniques and the mystery of the potato late blight pathogen, quorum sensing and the role of diffusible signalling molecules in plant-microbe interactions, and a molecular overview of hairy root. Other subjects are isolation and characterization of disease resistance genes in , and peptic enzymes of . Stacey is affiliated with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Keen with the University of California-Riverside. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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