Plant-Fungal Pathogen Interaction : a Classical and Molecular View /
Research on the interactions of plants and phytopathogenic fungi has become one of the most interesting and rapidly moving fields in the plant sciences, the findings of which have contributed tremendously to the development of new strategies of plant protection. This book offers insight into the sta...
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Recognition, the first step in interaction between plants and pathogen
- Activities of phytopathogenic fungi when colonizing their host plants
- Taxonomy of phytopathogenic fungi
- Plant defense strategies against phytopathogenic fungi
- Basic incompatibility: the resistance of non-host plants to phytopathogenic fungi
- Phytotoxins, the weapons of necrotrophic phytopathogenic fungi
- Host plant resistance: cultivar- or parasite-specific resistance
- Host plant tolerance
- Induced tolerance
- Evolution of plant-pathogen interaction
- its influence on breeding of disease resistant crops in agriculture
- Glossary.