Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Natural Resistance Mechanisms of Plants to Viruses

  • Book
  • © 2006

Overview

Editors:
  1. Gad Loebenstein

    1. Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet Dagan, Israel

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. John Peter Carr

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Links classical biological information with recent molecular studies

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. General Aspects

    1. Applied Aspects of Induced Resistance to Plant Virus Infection

      • John F. Murphy
      Pages 1-11

    2. Viral Determinants of Resistance Versus Susceptibility

      • James E. Schoelz
      Pages 13-43

    3. RNA Silencing: A Natural Resistance Mechanism in Plants

      • Etienne Bucher, Marcel Prins
      Pages 45-72

    4. Recognition and Signal Transduction Associated with R Gene-mediated Resistance

      • J. Caplan, S. P. Dinesh-Kumar
      Pages 73-98

    5. The Local Lesion Response

      • G. Loebenstein, F. Akad
      Pages 99-124

    6. Induced Resistance Mechanisms

      • A. Gilliland, A. M. Murphy, J. P. Carr
      Pages 125-145

    7. Host Gene-mediated Virus Resistance Mechanisms and Signaling in Arabidopsis

      • Pradeep Kachroo
      Pages 147-164

    8. Viral Counter-Defense Molecules

      • Peter Palukaitis, Stuart MacFarlane
      Pages 165-185

    9. Dark Greens Islands: the Phenomenon

      • Carolyn J. Moore, Robin M. MacDiarmid
      Pages 187-209

    10. Resistance to Infection

      • George Bruening
      Pages 211-240

    11. Reducing Virus Associated Crop Loss Through Resistance to Insect Vectors

      • Martha A. Mutschler, William M. Wintermantel
      Pages 241-260

    12. Cross-Protection

      • A. Gal-On, Y. M. Shiboleth
      Pages 261-288

    13. Arrest in Viral Transport as the Basis for Plant Resistance to Infection

      • Shoko Ueki, Vitaly Citovsky
      Pages 289-314

    14. Plant Metabolism Associated with Resistance and Susceptibility

      • Michael G. Handford, John P. Carr
      Pages 315-340

  3. Crop Related

    1. Resistance to Viruses in Potato

      • Hugh Barker, M. Finlay B. Dale
      Pages 341-366

    2. Common Beans

      • Francisco J. Morales
      Pages 367-382

    3. Virus Susceptibility and Resistance in Lettuce

      • Thierry Candresse, Olivier Le Gall, Marianne Mazier, Brigitte Maisonneuve
      Pages 383-397

    4. Resistance to Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Tomato Mosaic Virus in Tomato

      • Artur J. P. Pfitzner
      Pages 399-413

    5. Resistance to Turnip mosaic virus in the Brassicaceae

      • John A. Walsh, Carol E. Jenner
      Pages 415-430
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Over the course of evolution most plants have acquired the ability to defend themselves against most groups of pathogens, including the viruses. Many antiviral resistance phenomena have been known and studied for decades but, until recently, understanding of their underlying mechanisms has lagged behind. These phenomena include resistance to infection, resistance to virus translocation through the plant, recovery from infection and genetically defined resistance, together with the associated phenomena of the local lesion response, and induced, or acquired, resistance. The identification and cloning of plant resistance genes, characterization of downstream signaling components, and especially the explosion of data regarding gene-silencing mechanisms, has led to rapid progress in the investigation of natural resistance phenomena. Meanwhile, in plant virology there has been remarkable progress in the arenas of replication, movement proteins and plasmodesmatal gating, and in the discovery of gene silencing suppressors. Therefore, it seemed timely and appropriate to link older but still important data on the well known, ‘classical’ resistance phenomena with the new information that has emerged during the last decade or so. We hope that this book will inspire further research in this area, as resistance presents the most economical and environmentally sound approach to control plant virus diseases. Future technologies that emerge from this research might include an improved ability to introduce resistance genes into virus-susceptible, agronomically important cultivars, to improve current pathogen-derived resistance strategies using our new knowledge of small interfering and microRNAs, or to develop targeted chemical treatments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Agricultural Research Organisation, Bet Dagan, Israel

    Gad Loebenstein

  • University of Cambridge, UK

    John Peter Carr

About the editors

Gad Loebenstein. Ph.D. Graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and joined the Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel. He served as Head of the Department pf Plant Virology, Director pf the Agricultural Research Organization and Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Agriculture. His major research interests are plant virus diseases and natural resistance mechanisms of plants to viruses. His published work includes more than 200 scientific and technical papers. He was appointed as Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University and at the Tel Aviv University, and at the latter as Professor Emeritus. He is a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society, a Corresponding Member at the German Phytomedizinische Society and a member of the Kazakh Academy for Agriculture. In 1982 he received the Rothschild Prize for Agriculture.

Dr. John P. Carr
PhD in UK with Michael Wilson (1980-83), Postdoc with Dan Klessig
(University of Utah and Rutgers University: 1984-1989), Research Associate
with Milton Zaitlin (Cornell University: 1989-1993), own research group at
Cambridge University since 1993 (Senior Lecturer in Molecular Plant
Pathology).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Natural Resistance Mechanisms of Plants to Viruses

  • Editors: Gad Loebenstein, John Peter Carr

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3780-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3779-5Published: 03 April 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6963-4Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3780-1Published: 26 May 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 532

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Agriculture, Plant Pathology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation