Genomic and Genetic Analysis of Plant Parasitism and Defense

Global Analysis of Agrobacterium–Plant Interactions

Eugene Nester, Derek Wood, and Pu Liu

Functional Genomic Analysis of Pseudomonas syringae–Plant Interactions

Alan Collmer, Phillip A. Bronstein, Lisa M. Schechter, and Rena Shimizu

Bacterial Genes Involved in Interactions with Plants

Shinji Tsuyumu, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Takashi Fujikawa, Hiromichi Ishihara, and tomonori Shiraishi

Molecular Basis of Virulence in Ustilago maydis

Scott E. Gold, Maria D. Garcia-Pedrajas, David L. Andrews Steven J. Klosterman, Maria E. Mayorga, John D. Egan, Alfredo D. Martinez-Espinoza, David Smith and Michael H. Perlin

Conditionally Dispensable Chromosomes Controlling Pathogenicity of Alternaria alternata

Takashi Tsuge, Rieko Hatta, Kaoru Ito, Takayoshi Tanaka, Sheila R. Ruswandi, Keiji Kitani, Yoshiaki Harimoto, Shinya Takaoka, Akira Masunaka, Hajime Akamatsu, Kazuya Akimitsu, Motoichiro Kodama, Mikihiro Yamamoto, and Hiroshi Otani

Genetic Analysis of Fungal Pathogenesis: Penetration and Establishment

Yasuyuki Kubo, Satoshi Fujii, Naoki Fujihara, Seiji Tsuge, and Gentro Tsuji

Bacterial Virulence Factors: Strategies for Disrupting Plant Defense

Carol L. Bender

Bacterial Flagellins as Elicitors of the Defense Response

Yuki Ichinose, Fumiko Taguchi, Kasumi Takeuchi, Mizuri Marutani, Yasuhiro Ishiga, Yoshishige Inagaki, Kazuhiro Toyoda, and Tomonori Shiraishi

Molecular Genetic Analysis of AvrRpt2 Activity in Promoting Virulence of Pseudomonas syringae

Barbara N. Kunkel, Jennifer Agnew, James J. Collins, Jerry Cohen, and Zhongying Chen

Recognition of the Bacterial Effector Protein AvrPto in Soybean—A Case of HR-Independent Resistance

Li Wang, A. Assibi Mahama, Lalitree L. Darnielle, Alan L. Eggenberger, John Hil, and Adam J. Bogdanove

Defense Signaling and the Plant Cell Wall—A New Signaling Pathway Dependent upon Inorganic Phosphate

T. Shiraishi, K. Toyoda, A. Kiba, T. Kawahara, H. Takahashi, Y. Inagaki, and Y. Ichinose

Use of Expression Profiling in Studies of Gene-for-Gene Resistance

Fumiaki Katagiri

Evolution of Disease Resistance Genes

Shavannor Smith and Scot Hulbert

The Extracellular Matrix of Conidia of Powdery Mildew Fungi: Its Functions and Involvement in Information Exchange with Host Cells

Hitoshi Kunoh, Timothy L. W. Carver, Barry J. Thomas, Keiko Fujita, Akane Meguro, and Alison J. Wright

Dissection of Durable Resistance in Rice

Jan E. Leach, Bin Liu, Patricia Manosalva, Changjian Wu, Jianli Wu, Alicia Bordeos, Jianfa Bai, SeWeon Lee, Mariette Ryba-White, Myron Bruce, Scot Hulbert, Christopher Hopkins, Casiana Vera Cruz, and Hei Leung

Analysis of Rice–Blast Interactions Focused on Chitinolytic Enzyme and Chitin Elicitor

Yoko Nishizawa, Eiichi Minami, Chiharu Akimoto-Tomiyama, Ritsuko Mizobuchi, Akemi Tagiri, Yoshikane Ito, and takeshi Watanabe

Signal Transduction Pathways Governing Resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus

Hideki Takahashi, Ken-Taro Sekine, Takeaki Ishihara, Shu Hase, Masato Ikegami, and Jyoti Shah

The Superoxide Generating NADPH Oxidase in Plants: Its Molecular Basis and Role in Induction of Local and Systemic Induced Resistance Against Pathogens

N. Doke, H. Yoshioka, K. Sugie, N. Numata, K. Nakajima, H.-J. Park, N. Sunazaki, M. Yamashita, K. Kawakita, and S. Katou

Programmed Cell Death in the Disease Response

T. J. Wolpert, J. M. Lorang, M. J. Curtis, W. C. Coffeen, N. Carkaci-Salli, and T. A. Sweat

Telomerase Functions in Plant Pathogenesis

Katsunori Tamura, Keiko Oguchi, and Hideo Takashashi

Apoptotic Response During Pathogen Attack in Oats

Shigeyuki Mayama, Nan Yao, Ko Kusaka, Yasuomi Tada, Qian Yang, Teppei Shigemi, Satoshi Imai, Hotoshi Nakayashiki, Yukio Tosa, and Pyoyun Park

Use of Expression Profiling to Explore Disease Resistance Signaling in Plants

Jane Glazebrook

Signal Transduction in TMV-Infected and Wounded Tobacco Plants

Y. Ohashi, S. Seo, I. Mitsuhara, H. Yamakawa, and R. Takabatake

Role of a Mitochondrial Gene in Controlling Specificity in Plant Disease

Kazuya Akimitsu, Kouhei Ohtani, Akira Masunaka, Yumiko Yamasaki, Hiroshi Katoh, and Hieroyuki Tamamoto

Effects of Deoxynivalenol on Barley Leaf Tissue

W. R. Bushnell, T. M. Seeland, and P. Perkins-Veazie, D. E. Krueger, J. Collins, and V. M. Russo

"I strongly recommend this book to plant pathology specialists as it excellently proves how greatly applied genetics contributes to better understanding of pathogenicity and resistance processes in viral, bacterial, and fungal infections of cultivated plants."
-- Journal of Plant Protection Research

"…an intriguing overlap with animal/human microbe systems...a very interesting article on the telomerase function in pathogen-induced tumorigenesis suggests that cancer research may benefit from the studies of plant-microbe interactions…a quick interesting read."
-- Quarterly Review of Biology

"...a seminal work and a strongly recommended addition to professional, corporate, academic, and governmental Agricultural Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists."
-- The Midwest Book Review

"The wide range of pathogens covered as well as examples of exciting new technologies are sure to be of interest to Plant Pathologists, Microbiologists, Agronomists, Plant Biologists, or anyone interested in plant-microbe interactions”
-- International Pest Control

"It is very useful to have so many authors from Japan and to have an insight into the excellent ongoing work in many laboratories there.”
-- Outlooks on Pest Management

“The wide range of pathogens covered in this book as well as different and new aspects of genetics of plant-pathogen interactions included, are of interest to all researchers within the field of Plant Pathology. Articles are compact and all provided with the good literature references…”
-- Journal of Phytopathology