Plant-Microbe Interactions / Edition 1

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:	9780412112416
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/31/1997
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	187
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Plant Pathogenesis-related proteins in plants. Toxins produced by plant pathogens. Use of reporter genes to study microbial habitats in plants and in plant-microbe associations. Signal transduction pathways leading to an oxidative burst. Hrp gene regulation in plant pathogens. Polygalacturonase inhibitor proteins. Peptide elicitors triggering a hypersensitive response (HR) and systemic acquired resistance (SAR): the elicitin case. Autoinduction systems in plant associated microorganisms. Methods for the study of plant genetics.

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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