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CRC Press
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For the past century, it has been known that plants possess genetically inherited resistance mechanisms to combat phytopathogenic fungi, bacteria and viruses, and that the relationship between pathogens and host plants is highly specialized and complex. As techniques of molecular biology have developed over the past 25 years, our understanding of the molecular basis of these relationships has... Read more
Fungal Pathogenicity - Establishing Infection. Bacterial Pathogenicity. Viral Pathogenicity. Genetic Analysis and Evolution of Plant Disease Resistance Genes. Resistance Genes and Resistance Protein Function. Signaling in Plant Disease Resistance. Programmed Cell Death in Plants in Response to Pathogen Attack. Systemic Acquired Resistance. Transgenic Approaches to Disease-Resistant Plants as Exemplified by Viruses. Emerging Technologies and Their Application in the Study of Host-Pathogen Interaction. References. Index.
Biography
Dr Matthew Dickinson is at the Plant Science Division, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nottingham. Dr Jim Beynon is at Horticultural Research International, Wellesbourne, Warwick.
