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- Editors:
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Michel Nicole
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ORSTOM, Montpellier, France
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Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson
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INRA/CNRS, Dijon, France
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- C. Andary, L. Mondolot-Cosson, G. H. Dai
Pages 43-53
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- R. J. O’Connell, N. A. Pain, J. A. Bailey, K. Mendgen, J. R. Green
Pages 79-97
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- Brigitte Vian, Danièle Reis, Laura Gea, Valérie Grimault
Pages 99-115
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- H. Deising, S. Heiler, M. Rauscher, H. Xu, K. Mendgen
Pages 135-156
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- V. Gianinazzi-Pearson, A. Gollotte, C. Cordier, S. Gianinazzi
Pages 177-191
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- B. Boher, I. Brown, M. Nicole, K. Kpemoua, V. Verdier, U. Bonas et al.
Pages 193-210
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- M. Dollet, S. Marche, D. Gargani, E. Muller, T. Baltz
Pages 227-236
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- J. Lherminier, E. Boudon-Padieu
Pages 245-255
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Back Matter
Pages 257-262
About this book
Plants interact with a large number of microoganisms which have a major impact on their growth either by establishing mutually beneficial symbiotic relationships or by developing as pathogens at the expense of the plant with deleterious effects. These microorganisms differ greatly not only in their nature (viruses, phytoplasmas, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, ... ) but also in the way they contact, penetrate and invade their host. Histology and cytology have brought an essential contribution to our knowledge of these phenomena. They have told us for instance, how specialized structures of the pathogen are often involved in the adhesion and penetration into the plant, how the interface between both organisms is finely arranged at the cellular level, or what structural alterations affect the infected tissues. They have thus set the stage for the investigations of the underlying molecular mechanisms could be undertaken. Such investigations have been remarkably successful in the recent years, expanding considerably our understanding of plant-microorganism interactions in terms of biochemical changes, rapid modifications of enzymatic activities, coordinated gene activation, signal reception and transduction. Biochemistry, molecular biology and cellular physiology have taken precedence in the phytopathologist's set of methods.
Reviews
`This book may be interesting not only for scientists or students involved in plant-microorganism interaction but also for those who are concerned with cellular biology especially because of the description of techniques.'
Argonomie, 3 (1997)
