Table of Contents:
  • Plant RNA-silencing immunity and viral counter-defence strategies / Santiago Wadsworth and Patrice Dunoyer
  • Mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades in plant defence responses / Fengming Song, Huijuan Zhang and Shuqun Zhang
  • Molecular mechanisms of the radical burst in plant immunity / Hirofumi Yoshioka, Shuta Asai, Noriko Miyagawa, Tatsushi Ichikawa, Miki Yoshioka and Michie Kobayashi
  • Disease resistance in arabidopsis, starring TGA2 and also featuring NPR1 / Patrick Boyle, Pierre R. Fobert, and Charles Després
  • Disease resistance genes : form and function / Melanie A. Sacco and Peter Moffett
  • Transcription factor families involved in plant defence : from discovery to structure / Jean-Sébastien Parent, Laurent Cappadocia, Alexandre Maréchal, Pierre R. Fobert and Normand Brisson
  • Cross talk between induced plant immune systems / Rocío González-Lamothe, Mohamed El Oirdi, Taha Abd El Rahman, Raphaël Sansregret, Hamed Bathily and Kamal Bouarab
  • The needle and the damage done : type III effectors and the plant immune response / Jennifer D. Lewis, Karl Schreiber and Darrell Desveaux
  • Virulence determinants and the global regulation of virulence in Xanthomonas campestris / Adrián A. Vojnov, J. Maxwell Dow and Kamal Bouarab
  • Suppression of induced plant defence responses by fungal and oomycete pathogens / Abdelbasset El Hadrami, Ismail El Hadrami, and Fouad Daayf
  • Sustainable agriculture and the multigenomic model : how advances in the genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi will change soil management practices / Erin Zimmerman, Marc St-Arnaud, and Mohamed Hijri
  • Microbial traits associated with actinobacteria interacting with plants / Anne-Marie Simao-Beaunoir, Sébastien Roy and Carole Beaulieu
  • Insight into fusarium-cereal pathogenesis / Rajagopal Subramaniam, Charles G. Nasmith, Linda J. Harris and Thérèse Ouellet.