Plants have evolved both general and highly specialized defence mechanisms that function to prevent diseases caused by the majority of microbial pathogens they encounter. Highly specialized defence is governed by specific interactions between pathogen avr (avirulence) genes' loci and alleles of the corresponding plant disease resistance (R) loci. These defences can be very dynamic as microbes from the same species can act differently in their co-evolution with the specific host plant, which in turn has similarly evolved its response to external threats.
There have been major developments in the field of plant-microbe interactions in recent years, due to newly developed techniques and the availability of genomic information. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions explores these new discoveries, focusing primarily on the mechanisms controlling plant disease resistance, the cross-talk among the pathways involved and the strategies used by the pathogens to suppress these defences. By exploring developments in plant defences, pathogen's counter-defences and mutually beneficial plant-microbe interactions, this book will be useful for researchers and students in plant pathology and plant biology-related areas.
Chapter 1: Plant RNA-silencing Immunity and Viral Counter-defence
Strategies - Santiago Wadsworth and Patrice Dunoyer
Chapter 2:
Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Plant Defence Responses -
Fengming Song, Huijuan Zhang and Shuqun Zhang
Chapter 3: Molecular Mechanisms
of the Radical Burst in Plant Immunity - Hirofumi Yoshioka, Shuta Asai,
Noriko Miyagawa, Tatsushi Ichikawa, Miki Yoshioka, and Michie Kobayashi
Chapter 4: Disease Resistance in Arabidopsis, Starring TGA2 and also
Featuring NPR1 - Patrick Boyle, Pierre R. Fobert, and Charles Després
Chapter
5: Disease Resistance Genes: Form and Function - Melanie A. Sacco and Peter
Moffett
Chapter 6: Transcription Factor Families Involved in Plant Defence:
From Discovery to Structure - Jean-Sébastien Parent, Laurent Cappadocia,
Alexandre Maréchal, Pierre R. Fobert, Normand Brisson
Chapter 7: Cross Talk
Between Induced Plant Immune Systems - González-Lamothe Rocío, El Oirdi
Mohamed, Abd El Rahman Taha, Sansregret Raphaël, Bathily Hamed and Bouarab
Kamal
Chapter 8: The Needle and the Damage Done: Type III Effectors and the
Plant Immune Response - Jennifer D. Lewis, Karl Schreiber and Darrell
Desveaux
Chapter 9: Virulence Determinants and the Global Regulation of
Virulence in Xanthomonas campestris - Adrián A. Vojnov, J. Maxwell Dow, Kamal
Bouarab
Chapter 10: Suppression of Induced Plant Defence Responses by Fungal
and Oomycete Pathogens - Abdelbasset El Hadrami, Ismail El Hadrami, and Fouad
Daayf
Chapter 11: Sustainable Agriculture and the AMF Multigenomic Model: How
Advances in AMF Genetics will Change Soil Management Practices - Erin
Zimmerman, Marc St-Arnaud, and Mohamed Hijri
Chapter 12: Microbial Traits
Associated with Actinobacteria Interacting with Plants - Anne-Marie
Simao-Beaunoir, Sébastien Roy, Carole Beaulieu
Chapter 13: Insight into
Fusarium-cereal Pathogenesis - Rajagopal Subramaniam, Charles G. Nasmith,
Linda J. Harris and Thérèse Ouellet
