Delivery and perception of pathogen signals in plants /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Keen, Noel T., 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Paul, Minnesota : American Phytopathological Society, [2001]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Perception of pathogen signals to initiate active defense
  • Delivery of pathogen signals: historical approach
  • Adhesion of fungal spores and effects on plant cells
  • Bacterial Avr proteins: secreted agents of parasitism and elicitors of plant defense
  • Rice receptors for chitin and glucan elicitors
  • Understanding pectate lyase C at the atomic level
  • A new type of host-selective toxin, a protein from Alternaria brassiciola
  • Chlorosis-inducing phytotoxins
  • Molecular genetics of host-specific toxin biosynthesis in Alternaria alternata
  • Victorin, apoptosis and the mitochondrion
  • Suppressors of defense
  • Signaling pathways for TMV
  • Genetic relationships specifying bacterial disease resistance in Xanthomonas
  • Signaling in rice disease resistance
  • Mi-1, a dual function disease resistance gene in tomato
  • Pathogen recognition and signal transduction mediated by the product of the Pto disease resistance gene
  • Regulation of nuclear gene expression in relations to signal molecules
  • Molecular interactions between the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta and its corresponding avirulence gene
  • The oxidative burst in plants
  • Perception of the syringolide elicitors by soybean cells
  • Citrus responses to a pathogenicity factor
  • Effectors of bacterial virulence and mediators of disease resistance responses
  • Apoptotic response in defense of oats to infections and elicitors
  • Trafficking of pathogenicity-related gene products from xanthomonas citri into plant cell
  • Trafficking of plant defense response compounds
  • Biotechnology as an approach to improving disease resistance in plants.