Overview
- The book presents the ways and means to manipulate the signals and signaling system to enhance the expression of plant innate immunity for crop disease management
- It describes bioengineering approaches to develop transgenic plants expressing enhanced disease resistance using plant immunity signaling genes. It also discusses recent commercial development of biotechnological products to manipulate plant innate immunity for crop disease management
- These unique approaches have been described with more than 120 figures and illustrations and these would make this book attractive for researchers and students to buy this book
Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants (SIGCOMM)
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The volume III of the book presents the ways and means to manipulate the signals and signaling system to enhance the expression of plant innate immunity for crop disease management. It also describes bioengineering approaches to develop transgenic plants expressing enhanced disease resistance using plant immunity signaling genes. It also discusses recent commercial development of biotechnological products to manipulate plant innate immunity for crop disease management.
Engineering durable nonspecific resistance to phytopathogens is one of the ultimate goals of plant breeding. However, most of the attempts to reach this goal fail as a result of rapid changes in pathogen populations and the sheer diversity of pathogen infection mechanisms. Recently several bioengineering and molecular manipulation technologies have been developed to activate the ‘sleeping’ plant innate immune system, which has potential to detect and suppress the development of a wide range of plant pathogens in economically important crop plants. Enhancing disease resistance through altered regulation of plant immunity signaling systems would be durable and publicly acceptable. Strategies for activation and improvement of plant immunity aim at enhancing host’s capability of recognizing invading pathogens, boosting the executive arsenal of plant immunity, and interfering with virulence strategies employed by microbial pathogens. Major advances in our understanding of the molecular basis of plant immunity and of microbial infection strategies have opened new ways for engineering durable resistance in crop plants.
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Book Title: Plant Innate Immunity Signals and Signaling Systems
Book Subtitle: Bioengineering and Molecular Manipulation for Crop Disease Management
Authors: P. Vidhyasekaran
Series Title: Signaling and Communication in Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1940-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1939-9Published: 16 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1942-9Published: 16 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1940-5Published: 15 April 2020
Series ISSN: 1867-9048
Series E-ISSN: 1867-9056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 267
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences