Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 2

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Research on Plant-Microbe Interactions: Making it Relevant

      • Luis Sequeira

      Pages 3-14

   3. Cell-cell Interactions during Pollination in Brassica

      • J. B. Nasrallah, M. E. Nasrallah

      Pages 15-21

   4. Overcoming Pest and Pathogen Adaptability Using Insights from Evolutionary Biology

      • P. Kareiva, J. Winterer, B. Klepetka

      Pages 23-33

3. Agrobacterium-Plant Interactions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. The Virulence System of Agrobacterium Tumefaciens

      • Alice Beijersbergen, Paul J. J. Hooykaas

      Pages 37-49

   3. Molecular and Chemical Analysis of Signal Perception by Agrobacterium

      • Andrew N. Binns, Rolf D. Joerger, Lois M. Banta, Kyunghee Lee, David G. Lynn

      Pages 51-61

   4. A. Tumefaciens T-DNA Transport: Roles for VirB, VirD2 and VirE2

      • B. G. McLean, Y. Thorstenson, V. Citovsky, J. R. Zupan, E. Greene, P. C. Zambryski

      Pages 63-71

   5. Identification of Genetic Factors Controlling the Ability of Agrobacterium to Transfer DNA to Maize

      • Margaret I. Boulton, Deanna M. Raineri, Jeffrey W. Davies, Eugene W. Nester

      Pages 73-78

   6. Mechanism of T-DNA Transfer

      • Bruno Tinland, Michael Hall, Barbara Hohn

      Pages 79-84

   7. Molecular Interactions between Agrobacterium and Plant Cells

      • Y. Machida, N. Shimoda, A. Yamamoto-Toyoda, Y. Takahashi, R. Nishihama, S. Aoki et al.

      Pages 85-96

   8. Detection of Avirulent Mutants of Agrobacterium Tumefaciens in Crown-Gall Tumors Produced in Vitro

      • C. Bélanger, M. L. Canfield, L. W. Moore, P. Dion

      Pages 97-101

   9. VirB4 is an Inner Membrane-Associated Protein Essential for T-DNA Transfer from Agrobacterium Tumefaciens to Plants

      • K. Shirasu, Z. Koukolíková-Nicola, B. Hohn, C. I. Kado

      Pages 103-107

   10. The Rhizogenes tale: modification of plant growth and physiology by an enzymatic system of hydrolysis of phytohormone conjugates

       • A. Spena, J. J. Estruch, G. Hansen, K. Langenkemper, S. Berger, J. Schell

       Pages 109-124

   11. The Agrobacterium Tumefaciens Transcriptional Activator OccR Causes a Bend at a Target Promoter that is Partially Relaxed by a Plant Tumor Metabolite

       • L. Wang, K. Cho, J. D. Helmann, S. C. Winans

       Pages 125-129

4. Rhizobium-Plant Interactions: Rhizobium Side

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Rhizobium Nodulation Factors: Variations on a Theme

      • N. Demont, P. Roche, H. Aurelle, F. Talmont, D. Prome, J. C. Prome et al.

      Pages 133-141

   3. Control of Nodule Induction and Plant Cell Growth by Nod Factors

      • E. Kondorosi, M. Schultze, A. Savoure, B. Hoffmann, D. Dudits, M. Pierre et al.

      Pages 143-150

   4. Rhizobial Lipo-Oligosaccharide Signals: Their Biosynthesis and Their Role in the Plant

      • H. P. Spaink, A. Aarts, G. V. Bloemberg, J. Folch, O. Geiger, H. R. M. Schlaman et al.

      Pages 151-162

Research on the interaction between plants and microbes continues to attract increasing attention, both within the field as well as in the scientific community at large. Many of the major scientific journals have recently reviewed various aspects of the field. Several papers dealing with plant-microbe interactions have been featured on the covers of scientific publications in the past several months, and the lay press have recently presented feature articles of this field. An additional sign of the interest in this field is that the International Society of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions has almost 500 members. This book is a collection of the papers that were given at the Sixth Inlernational Symposium on the Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions which was held in Seattle, Washington in July, 1992. Approximately 650 scientists attended and approximately 50 lectures covering the topics of Agrobacterium-plant interactions, Rhizobium-plant interactions, bacteria-plant interactions, fungal-plant interactions and new aspects of biotechnology were presented. In addition, many sessions were devoted to the plant response to the microbe. Over 400 posters were presented of which the authors of 20 were selected to give an oral presentation. These papers are included in this volume as well. The symposium also included speakers whose research interests are not directly related to plant-microbe interactions but who are at the cutting edge of research areas that impact on the theme of the symposium. These individuals kindly agreed to summarize their talks and their papers are also included.

• Expression
• Fungi
• Pathogene
• Phytohormon
• Polysaccharide
• Regulation
• Transport
• cell growth
• gene expression
• microbe
• nitrogen
• physiology
• roots
• transcription
• wheat

• University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  Eugene W. Nester

• The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

  Desh Pal S. Verma

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