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Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants

  • Individual chapters written by world-renowned experts
  • Extensive coverage of the area helps the reader to find both basic and advanced information on belowground defences in one publication
  • An ideal reference for general and specific audience/readers ranging from biology and agriculture students, teachers, lecturers, to plant breeders, agronomists, plant pathologists, molecular biologists and policy makers
  • An ideal reference that supplements under-graduate and graduate courses on molecular plant pathology and plant-pathogen interactions

Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants (SIGCOMM)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction to Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants

    • Christine M. F. Vos, Kemal Kazan
    Pages 1-3
  3. General Principles of Belowground Defence Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
  4. Belowground Defence Strategies to Root Pathogens

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
    2. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Fusarium oxysporum

      • Louise F. Thatcher, Brendan N. Kidd, Kemal Kazan
      Pages 71-98
    3. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Rhizoctonia

      • Brendan N. Kidd, Kathleen D. DeBoer, Karam B. Singh, Jonathan P. Anderson
      Pages 99-117
    4. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Verticillium Pathogens

      • Eva Häffner, Elke Diederichsen
      Pages 119-150
    5. Belowground Signaling and Defence in Host–Pythium Interactions

      • Patricia A. Okubara, Jin-Ho Kang, Gregg A. Howe
      Pages 171-193
    6. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Sedentary Nematodes

      • Marta Barcala, Javier Cabrera, Carmen Fenoll, Carolina Escobar
      Pages 221-251
    7. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Migratory Nematodes

      • Michael G. K. Jones, Sadia Iqbal, John Fosu-Nyarko
      Pages 253-278
  5. Root Responses to Beneficial Micro-organisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
    2. Root Interactions with Nonpathogenic Fusarium oxysporum

      • Christian Steinberg, Charline Lecomte, Claude Alabouvette, Véronique Edel-Hermann
      Pages 281-299
    3. Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants: The Plant–Trichoderma Dialogue

      • Ainhoa Martinez-Medina, Maria J. Pozo, Bruno P. A. Cammue, Christine M. F. Vos
      Pages 301-327
    4. Mitigating Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

      • Katia Plouznikoff, Stéphane Declerck, Maryline Calonne-Salmon
      Pages 341-400
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 401-410

About this book

This book summarizes our current knowledge on belowground defence strategies in plants by world-class scientists actively working in the area. The volume includes chapters covering belowground defence to main soil pathogens such as Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Verticillium, Phytophthora, Pythium and Plasmodiophora, as well as to migratory and sedentary plant parasitic nematodes. In addition, the role of root exudates in belowground plant defence will be highlighted, as well as the crucial roles of pathogen effectors in overcoming root defences. Finally, accumulating evidence on how plants can differentiate beneficial soil microbes from the pathogenic ones will be covered as well. Better understanding of belowground defences can lead to the development of environmentally friendly plant protection strategies effective against soil-borne pathogens which cause substantial damage on many crop plants all over the world. The book will be a useful reference for plant pathologists, agronomists, plantmolecular biologists as well as students working on these and related areas.





Editors and Affiliations

  • CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, St Lucia, Australia

    Christine M.F. Vos, Kemal Kazan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants

  • Editors: Christine M.F. Vos, Kemal Kazan

  • Series Title: Signaling and Communication in Plants

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42319-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42317-3Published: 25 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82552-6Published: 28 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42319-7Published: 17 November 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1867-9048

  • Series E-ISSN: 1867-9056

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 410

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology, Agriculture, Microbial Ecology

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eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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