Molecular Strategies of Pathogens and Host Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Overviews

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Molecular Strategies in the Interaction Between Agrobacterium and Its Hosts

      • Eugene W. Nester, Milton P. Gordon

      Pages 3-14

   3. Molecular Biology of Fungal Host-Parasite Interactions

      • Seiji Ouchi

      Pages 15-28

3. Bacterial Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Distinct Induction of Pectinases as a Factor Determining Host Specificity of Soft-Rotting Erwinia

      • Shinji Tsuyumu, Masahiko Miura, Shouichi Nishio

      Pages 31-43

   3. Regulation of the Production of Pectinases and Other Extracellular Enzymes in the Soft-Rotting Erwinia spp.

      • A. K. Chatterjee, J. L. McEvoy, H. Murata, A. Collmer

      Pages 45-58

   4. Characterization and Function of Bacterial Avirulence Genes

      • Noel T. Keen

      Pages 59-67

   5. Organization and Function of Pathogenicity Genes of Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars phaseolicola and syringae

      • Dallice Mills, Pradip Mukhopadhyay, Yuqi Zhao, Martin Romantschuk

      Pages 69-81

   6. The Role of Indoleacetic Acid Biosynthetic Genes in Tumorigenicity

      • Tetsuji Yamada, Tomoki Nishino, Tomonori Shiraishi, Tom Gaffney, Frank Roberto, Curt J. Palm et al.

      Pages 83-94

   7. Molecular Analysis of Phaseolotoxin Production in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola

      • Suresh S. Patil, Karla B. Rowley, H. V. Kamdar, David Clements, Morton Mandel, Tom Humphreys

      Pages 95-104

4. Fungal Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Molecular Analysis of Pathogenesis in Ustilago maydis

      • Sally A. Leong, Jun Wang, James Kronstad, David Holden, Allen Budde, Eunice Froeliger et al.

      Pages 107-118

   3. Molecular Analysis of Genes for Pathogenicity of Alternaria alternata Japanese Pear Pathotype, a Host-Specific Toxin Producer

      • Takashi Tsuge, Hirokazu Kobayashi

      Pages 119-129

   4. Strategies for Characterizing and Cloning Host Specificity Genes in Magnaporthe grisea, the Rice Blast Fungus

      • Forrest G. Chumley, Barbara Valent

      Pages 131-138

   5. Role of Host-Specific Toxins in the Pathogenesis of Alternaria alternata

      • Hiroshi Otani, Keisuke Kohmoto, Motoichiro Kodama, Syoyo Nishimura

      Pages 139-149

   6. Suppressor Production as a Key Factor for Fungal Pathogenesis

      • Tomonori Shiraishi, Tetsuji Yamada, Hachiro Oku, Hirofumi Yoshioka

      Pages 151-162

5. Plant’s Response

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Molecular Aspects of Elicitation of Host Defense Reactions

      • Masaaki Yoshikawa, Youji Takeuchi

      Pages 165-176

   3. Genetic Fine Structure Analysis of a Maize Disease-Resistance Gene

      • Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Scot H. Hulbert, Philip C. Lyons

      Pages 177-188

The field of the molecular basis of plant disease is rapidly developing. The nineteen chapters of current information in Molecular Strategies of Pathogens and Host Plants are written by well known experts in the United States and Japan, and cover recent progress in the genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and fungi which are pathogens of plants. This research emphasizes the genes which are responsible for production of toxins, enzymes, and hormones that lead to pathogenicity and specificity in plant-pathogen interactions. Several chapters also examine the biochemistry of the plant's response to microbial attack.

• Pathogen
• biochemistry
• fungi
• genes
• molecular biology

• Department of Plant Pathology and the Biotechnology Program, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

  Suresh S. Patil

• Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

  Dallice Mills

• Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan

  Seiji Ouchi

• Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, USDA-ARS, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

  Carroll Vance

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