Plant-Microbe Interactions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Developmental and Metabolic Adaptations during Symbiosis between Legume Hosts and Rhizobia

   • Desh Pal S. Verma

   Pages 1-28

3. Biosynthesis and Secretion of Rhizobial Lipochitin-Oligosaccharide Signal Molecules

   • Eric Kamst, Herman P. Spaink, Dimitris Kafetzopoulos

   Pages 29-71

4. The Role of Microbial Surface Polysaccharides in the Rhizobium-Legume Interaction

   • Karsten Niehaus, Anke Becker

   Pages 73-116

5. The Symbiotic Interaction between Azorhizobium caulinodans and Sesbania rostrata

   • Sofie Goormachtig, Peter Mergaert, Marc Van Montagu, Marcelle Holsters

   Pages 117-164

6. Interaction between Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants

   • Changhui Guan, Katharina Pawlowski, Ton Bisseling

   Pages 165-189

7. Strategies to Engineer Plants Resistant to Bacterial and Fungal Diseases

   • Günter Strittmatter, Koen Goethals, Marc Van Montagu

   Pages 191-213

8. Plant-Fungal Interactions and Plant Disease

   • Wolfgang Knogge

   Pages 215-251

9. Arabidopsis thaliana

   • Keith R. Davis

   Pages 253-285

10. Engineering Resistance against Viral Diseases in Plants

    • Carlos A. Malpica, Maria Teresa Cervera, Chris Simoens, Marc Van Montagu

    Pages 287-320

11. Biosynthesis and Regulation of Coronatine, a Non-Host-Specific Phytotoxin Produced by Pseudomonas syringae

    • Carol L. Bender, David A. Palmer, Alejandro Peñaloza-Vázquez, Vidhya Rangaswamy, Matthias Ullrich

    Pages 321-341

12. DNA Transfer from Agrobacterium to Plant Cells in Crown Gall Tumor Disease

    • Anath Das

    Pages 343-363

13. Import of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Virulence Proteins and Transferred DNA into Plant Cell Nuclei

    • Walt Ream

    Pages 365-384

14. Oligosaccharide Elicitors in Host-Pathogen Interactions

    • François Côté, Kyung-Sik Ham, Michael G. Hahn, Carl W. Bergmann

    Pages 385-432

15. Back Matter

    Pages 433-440

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Recent years have seen tremendous progress in unraveling the molecular basis of different plant-microbe interactions. Knowledge has accumulated on the mecha­ nisms of the microbial infection of plants, which can lead to either disease or resistance. The mechanisms developed by plants to interact with microbes, whether viruses, bacteria, or fungi, involve events that can lead to symbiotic association or to disease or tumor formation. Cell death caused by pathogen infection has been of great interest for many years because of its association with plant resistance. There appear to be two types of plant cell death associated with pathogen infection, a rapid hypersensitive cell death localized at the site of infection during an incompatible interaction between a resistant plant and an avirulent pathogen, and a slow, normosensitive plant cell death that spreads beyond the site of infection during some compatible interactions involving a susceptible plant and a virulent, necrogenic pathogen. Plants possess a number of defense mechanisms against infection, such as (i) production of phytoalexin, (ii) formation of hydrolases, (iii) accumulation of hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein and lignin deposition, (iv) production of pathogen-related proteins, (v) produc­ tion of oligosaccharides, jasmonic acid, and various other phenolic substances, and (vi) production of toxin-metabolizing enzymes. Based on these observations, insertion of a single suitable gene in a particular plant has yielded promising results in imparting resistance against specific infection or disease. It appears that a signal received after microbe infection triggers different signal transduction pathways.

• DNA
• Oligosaccharid
• Polysaccharid
• arabidopsis thaliana
• development
• plant
• plants
• protein
• synthesis

• University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India

  B. B. Biswas

• Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

  H. K. Das

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