Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions CD, Volume 6

Preface
Opening Lecture
Diversification of RNA silencing mechanisms
James C. Carrington

Chapter 1: Pathogenic and symbiotic plant-bacterium interactions

Recognition of pathogen effectors and activation of disease resistance signaling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana
Brian Staskawicz

Suppression of host defense by Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis
S. Y. He, E. Bray-Speth, Wei-Ning Huang, L. Imboden, Young Nam Lee, Christy Mecey, M. Melotto, K. Nomura, W. Underwood, Francisco Uribe, Jian Yao, and Weiqing Zeng

A Pseudomonas syringae effector ADP-ribosylates plant RNA binding proteins and suppresses innate immunity
James R. Alfano, Zheng Qing Fu, Ming Guo, Byeong-ryool Jeong, Fang Tian, Thomas E. Elthon, Ronald L. Cerny, and Dorothee Staiger

Coordinated expression of type III secretion system-dependent effectors, small diffusible molecules and phytohormone analogues in the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum
S. Genin, N. Peeters, M. Poueymiro, A. Angot, F. Delaspre, C. Nieto-Peñalver, O. Saurel, A. Milon, M. Valls, P. Barberis, J. Vorholt, and C. Boucher

Functional genomic analysis of the Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 type III effector repertoire
Alan Collmer, Marshall L. Hayes, Brian H. Kvitko, Joanne E. Morello, Hye-Sook Oh, and Chia-Fong Wei

Plant carbohydrate scavenging through TonB-dependent receptors by the phytopathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris
Servane Blanvillain, Damien Meyer, Guillaume Déjean, Alice Boulanger, Martine Lautier, Catherine Guynet, Nicolas Denancé, Jacques Vasse, Emmanuelle Lauber, and Matthieu Arlat

Bacterial extracellular polysaccharides promote pathogenicity by suppressing plant basal defences
Shazia N. Aslam, Robert W. Jackson, Kate L. Morrissey, Marc R. Knight, Delphine Chinchilla, Thomas Boller, Gitte Erbs, Tina Tandrup Jensen, Mari-Anne Newman, and Richard M. Cooper

Regulation and function of anti-eukaryote factors in Pseudomonas fluorescens NZI7
Peter Burlinson, Joanna Knaggs, Jonathan Hodgkin, and Gail Preston

Composite plants, a tool to study functional genomics of Npv30, a gene family highly expressed in Phaseolus vulgaris root nodules
Olivares, J. E., Estrada, G., Guillén, G., Campos, F., Alvarado-Affantranger, X., Díaz-Camino, C., Quinto, C., Zavala, G., and Sanchez, F.

Lotus japonicus NSP2 functions as activator of nodule and lateral root initiation
Y. Murakami, S. Tomisawa, S. Kawasaki, and M. Kawaguchi

Terminal bacteroid differentiation in nodules of IRLC legumes is linked to the evolution of high diversity of secreted, nodule-specific peptides in the host plant
Eva Kondorosi, Benoît Alunni, Zoltan Kevei, Nicolas Maunoury, Willem Van de Velde, Agnes Szatmari, Adam Kondorosi, and Peter Mergaert

Biofilm formation in Sinorhizobium meliloti
Nancy A. Fujishige, Kat Jankaew, and Ann M. Hirsch

The nucleus as a central player in symbiotic signaling
Brendan K. Riely, Elsa Messinese, Jeong-Hwan Mun, Edgar Peiter, Jongho Sun, Li Huey Yeun, Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran, Dhileepkumar Jayaraman, Anne B. Heckmann, , Géraldine Lougnon, Anne Edwards, Pierre Rougé, Annick Barre, Dale Sanders, J. Allan Downie, Giles E. D. Oldroyd, Jean-Jacques Bono, Douglas R. Cook, and Jean-Michel Ané

Chapter 2: Pathogenic and symbiotic plant-fungus and plant-oomycete interactions

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea
Nicholas J. Talbot, Diane O. C. Saunders, Darren M. Soanes, Richard A. Wilson, Claire Veneault-Fourrey, Thomas A. Richards, Michael J. Kershaw, Romain Huguet, Martin J. Egan, Han-Min Wong, Elise Lambeth, and Zaira Caracuel-Rios

Trichothecene diversity and evolution of Fusarium graminearum
H. Corby Kistler and Liane R. Gale

Botrytis cinerea: Special aspects of a necrotrophic life-style
Paul Tudzynski

Cost of virulence: Case of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici
B. Bahri, M. Leconte, C. de Vallavieille-Pope, and J. Enjalbert

A gene cluster on a conditionally dispensable chromosome controlling AAL-toxin biosynthesis and pathogenicity in the tomato pathotype of Alternaria alternata
Motoichiro Kodama, Yasunori Akagi, Hajime Akamatsu, Hiroshi Otani, Mikihiro Yamamoto, and Takashi Tsuge

Function and evolution of avirulence genes in cereal powdery mildew
Christopher J. Ridout, Soledad Sacristán, Marielle Vigouroux, and James K. M. Brown

Dissecting cellular and molecular responses of host plants during early arbuscular mycorrhizal interactions
Paola Bonfante, Andrea Genre, Valeria Siciliano, Mike Guether, Jorge Gomez Ariza, Antonella Faccio, Mara Novero, Lorella Navazio, Raffaella Balestrini, Luisa Lanfranco

Genetics and genomics of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals
Uta Paszkowski, Ruairidh Sawers, Caroline Gutjahr, Sylvain Marcel, and Leonardo Casieri

Mastering mycorrhizal symbiosis: Sugar as nutrient and signal in ectomycorrhizas
Uwe Nehls, Mónica Fajardo López, Marlis Reich, Margret Ecke, and Andrea Bock

Lipid signals in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Gernot Kunze, David Drissner, Thomas Boller, Nikolaus Amrhein, and Marcel Bucher

Arthur Schüßler: The Geosiphon-Nostoc symbiosis as a tool to characterize symbiotic nutrient transporters in the arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
Arthur Schüßler, Holger Martin, David Cohen, and Daniel Wipf

Medicago truncatula plants with reduced levels of the sucrose synthase MtSucS1 are handicapped in nodulation and mycorrhization
Natalija Hohnjec, Markus C. Baier, and Helge Küster

Groovy times: Structure, evolution, and function of filamentous pathogen effectors
Sophien Kamoun

Lectin receptor kinase 79, a putative target of the Phytophthora infestans effector IPI-O
Klaas Bouwmeester, Sofieke Klamer, Anne Gouget, Nathalie Haget, Hervé Canut, and Francine Govers

Loss of downy mildew susceptibility in Arabidopsis through mutation in genes encoding metabolic enzymes
Mireille Van Damme, Robin Huibers, Tieme Zeilmaker, Annemieke Andel, Joyce Elberse, and Guido Van den Ackerveken

Chapter 3: Multitrophic interactions (pathogens, insects, nematodes, endophytes, parasitic plants)

Cross-talk between signaling pathways leading to defense against pathogens and insects
Corné M. J. Pieterse, Annemart Koornneef, Antonio Leon Reyes, Tita Ritsema, Adriaan Verhage, Ruth Joosten, Martin De Vos, Vivian Van Oosten, and Marcel Dicke

Early stages in parasitism of roots by root-knot nematodes
Valerie M. Williamson, Qingli Liu, Congli Wang, and Varghese Thomas

Towards a global view of the root-knot nematode genome
Pierre Abad, Marie-Noëlle Rosso, Géraldine Dubreuil, Emeline Deleury, Jérôme Gouzy, Laetitia Zurletto, Bruno Favery, and Philippe Castagnone-Sereno

A look through the stylet: Deciphering the mechanisms of nematode parasitism
Tarek Hewezi, Anoop Sindhu, Peter Howe, Axel A. Elling, Melissa G. Mitchum, Eric L. Davis, Richard S. Hussey, and Thomas J. Baum

Chorismate mutases of Globodera pallida: Genetic and functional characterisation
Vivian Blok, Mark Phillips, Liliya Pylypenko, Juan Manuel Rodriguez, Rujuta Shaw, Allan Booth, Ailsa Smith, Anne Holt, Eleanor Gilroy, Casey Plain, and John Jones

Functional analysis of a host microtubule-associated protein acting in nematode feeding cell formation
Marie-Cécile Caillaud, Michaël Quentin, Philippe Lecomte, Janice De Almeida-Engler, Pierre Abad, and Bruno Favery

Structural and functional analysis of Gpa2-mediated resistance against the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida
Kamila Koropacka, Erik Slootweg, Jan Roosien, Robert Dees, Melanie Ann Sacco, Peter Moffett, Geert Smant, Jaap Bakker, Aska Goverse

Reactive oxygen species signalling is critical for maintaining a mutualistic symbiotic interaction between Epichloë festucae and perennial ryegrass
Aiko Tanaka, Daigo Takemoto, and Barry Scott

Interactions of Piriformospora indica with Arabidopsis thaliana: early plant signaling events involved in a beneficial symbiosis with a growth- and seed yield-promoting endophytic fungus
Ralf Oelmüller

Non-culturable Rhizobia and diverse endophytic bacteria co-inhabiting wild legume nodules
Rosella Muresu, Elisa Polone, Leonardo Sulas, Barbara Baldan, Alessandra Tondello, Giuseppe Delogu, Piero Cappuccinelli, Sara Alberghini, Yacine Benhizia, Hayet Benhizia, Ammar Benguedouar, Bruno Mori, Roberto Calamassi, Frank B. Dazzo, and Andrea Squartini

Recent findings and new perspectives on volatile signaling between plants and insects and among plants
Mark C. Mescher, Christopher J. Frost, Justin Runyon, and Consuelo M. De Moraes

Molecular genetics and transcriptomics of Striga-rice interactions
Krittika Kaewchumnong and Adam Price

Chapter 4: Recognition and signalling

Signal integration in the plant immune system
Qian-Hua Shen, Yusuke Saijo, Stefan Mauch, Nico Tintor, Christoph Biskup, Bekir Ülker, Imre E. Somssich, Ralph Panstruga, Silke Robatzek, and Paul Schulze-Lefert

Oligogalacturonide signalling: sensing a breach in the wall
Simone Ferrari, Roberta Galletti, Vincenzo Lionetti, Benedetta Mattei, Manuela Casasoli, Daniela Pontiggia, Felice Cervone, and Giulia De Lorenzo

Chitin signaling in Arabidopsis
Jinrong Wan, Katrina Ramonell, Xuecheng Zhang, Steve Clough, Ren Zhang, Marc Libault, Geon H. Son, Minviluz G. Stacey, Jong C. Hong, and Gary Stacey

The roles of salicylic acid-binding protein 2 and methyl salicylate in systemic acquired resistance in tobacco and Arabidopsis
Sang-Wook Park, Dhirendra Kumar, Evans Kaimoyo, Anna Corina Vlot, and Daniel F. Klessig

The downy mildew effector proteins ATR1 and ATR13 promote disease susceptibility in Arabidopsis thaliana
Keehoon Sohn, Rita Lei, Adnane Nemri, and Jonathan D. G. Jones

The role of BAK1/SERK3 in innate immunity in Arabidopsis
Delphine Chinchilla, Cyril Zipfel, Georg Felix, and Thomas Boller

Genetic analysis of PAMP-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis
Cyril Zipfel, Ben Schwessinger, Milena Roux, and Jonathan Dg Jones

High through-put genetics separates many plant signaling pathways towards programmed cell death
Hans Thordal-Christensen, Ziguo Zhang, Andrea Lenk, Angela Feechan, Carsten Pedersen, Mads Eggert Nielsen, Mats X. Andersson, Dale Godfrey, and Sara Melhedegård Mørch

Natural variation of the FLS2 mediated flagellin response
Susanne Salomon and Silke Robatzek

Jasmonate-insensitive 3 is a nuclear target of SCF^COI1 negatively regulating JA signalling
A. Chini, S. Fonseca, G. Fernández, B. Adie, J. M. Chico, O. Lorenzo, G. García-Casado, I. López-Vidriero, F. M. Lozano, M. R. Ponce, J. L. Micol, and R. Solano

Effectors, their targets and host responses in the pathosystem Cladosporium fulvum-tomato
Pierre J. G. M. de Wit, Ioannis I. Stergiopoulos, John W. van ‘t Klooster, H. Peter van Esse, Emilie F. Fradin, Ursula Ellendorff, Susan H. E. J. Gabriëls, Iris J. E. Stulemeijer, Melvin D. Bolton, Orlando Borras-Hidalgo, Wladimir I. L. Tameling, Ahmed M. Abd-El-Haliem, Grardy C. M. van den Berg-Velthuis, Jacques Vervoort, Sjef Boeren, Matthieu H. A. J. Joosten, and Bart P. H. J. Thomma

Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrPtoB uses multiple mechanisms to suppress plant immunity
Tracy R. Rosebrock, Fangming Xiao, and Gregory B. Martin

Chapter 5: Molecular dialogues, and plant- virus/viroid/phytoplasma interactions

Gene expression in Medicago truncatula associated with appressoria formation by Glomus versiforme
S. Karen Gomez, Melina Lopez-Meyer, and Maria J. Harrison

The role of cell to cell signaling in the Sinorhizobium meliloti–alfalfa symbiosis
Audry C. Almengor, Sarah Glenn, Nataliya Gurich, Hanh H. Hoang, Jennifer Morris, Konrad Mueller, Arati Patankar, Luciana Rinaudi, and Juan E. González

The role of secreted proteins during establishment of biotrophy in the Ustilago maydis/maize pathosystem
Thomas Brefort, Lazaro Molina, Gunther Doehlemann, Kerstin Schipper, Artemio-Mendoza-Mendoza, Olaf Mueller, Jan Schirawski, and Regine Kahmann

Reverse genetic analysis of pathogenicity in Stagonospora nodorum
Simon V. S. Ipcho, Peter S. Solomon, and Richard P. Oliver

PAMP signals and their perception by receptor kinases in plants
Markus Albert, Pascal Bittel, Thomas Boller, Delphine Chinchilla, Martin Lipschis, Katharina Müller, and Georg Felix

Viroid-host interactions: A molecular dialogue between two uneven partners
Ricardo Flores, Alberto Carbonell, Selma Gago, Angel-Emilio Martínez de Alba, Sonia Delgado, María-Elena Rodio, and Francesco Di Serio

Iron-dependent quorum sensing controls epiphytic fitness and virulence in Pseudomonas syringae
Glenn Dulla and Steven E. Lindow

Dual role of quorum sensing molecules in swarming
Kristien Braeken, Ruth Daniels, Eleonora Capozzi, Natalie Verstraeten, Jan Fransaer, Jan Vermant, and Jan Michiels

Quorum sensing regulation in the biocontrol strain Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0
Karine Lapouge, Christophe Dubuis, and Dieter Haas

Quorum sensing control of Stewartan exopolysaccharide production, biofilm formation and virulence in the plant pathogenic bacterium, Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii
Susanne B. von Bodman, Aurelien Carlier, and Carmen M. Herrera

Oxylipins act as quorum sensing molecules and mediate the Aspergillus-seed dialogue
Dimitrios I. Tsitsigiannis, Marion Brodhagen, and Nancy P. Keller

Interactions between replicase proteins and host cell membranes in positive-strand RNA plant virus replication
Luisa Rubino and Marcello Russo

The suppressor of gene silencing P0 is a viral F-box protein that targets ARGONAUTE1
Diane Bortolamiol, Maghsoud Pazhouhandeh, Katia Marrocco, Pascal Genschik, and Véronique Ziegler-Graff

Cauliflower mosaic virus P6 protein suppresses SA-dependent defense responses in Arabidopsis
Andrew J. Love, Chiara Geri, Janet Laird, Byung W. Yun, Gary J. Loake, Ari Sadanandom, and Joel J. Milner

Molecular and developmental alterations elicited by a chloroplastic viroid
Francesco Di Serio, Maria-Elena Rodio, Sonia Delgado, Angelo De Stradis, María-Dolores Gómez, and Ricardo Flores

Chapter 6: Dynamics of plant responses to microbes, and evolution of susceptibility and resistance

Dynamic host responses in plant powdery-mildew interactions
Chian Kwon, Riyaz Bhat, Stephane Bieri, Natascha Clemens, Chiara Consonni, Matt Humphry, Mark Kwaaitaal, Volker Lipka, Dorit Meyer, Simone Pajonk, Anja Reinstädler, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Nana Zappel, and Ralph Panstruga

Driving innate immunity: ‘R’ we there yet?
Tessa M. Burch-Smith and Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar

Molecular mechanisms underlying the activation of NBS-LRR proteins
Roger Innes, Jules Ade, Thomas Ashfield, Brody DeYoung, and Laura Ong

MLO-mediated resistance: How to prevent undesirable early senescence and callose deposition without affecting the resistance to powdery mildew fungi
Chiara Consonni, Matt Humphry, Pawel Bednarek, and Ralph Panstruga

Functional studies of a ternary chaperone complex in plant immunity
Ken Shirasu, Marta Boter, Beatrice Amigues, Yasuhiro Kadota, Jack Peart, Christian Breuer, Catarina Casais, Francoise Ochsenbein, and Raphael Guerois

Responses of plants to secreted effectors from the pathogenic bacteria Pseudomonas syringae
Jose Castillo, Min Woo Lee, Joanna Jelenska, Ho Won Jung, Gail Teitzel, Boris A. Vinatzer, and Jean T. Greenberg

Recognition and activation by the NB-LRR proteins Rx and Gpa2; involvement of a Ran GTPase-activating protein
Melanie Sacco, Greg Rairdan, Sarah Collier, Teresa Boettrich, Thomas T. Baldwin, and Peter Moffett

Methods for LRR functional site identification and manipulation: The FLS2 example
Andrew Bent, Wenxian Sun, F. Mark Dunning, Laura Helft, Kristin Jansen, and James Murphy

Evolution and function of the Pseudomonas syringae HopZ type III effector family
Wenbo Ma, Jennifer D. Lewis, Darrell Desveaux, and David S. Guttman

Processes in plant resistance to invasive pathogens and probing insects
J. Parker, S. Rietz, L. Wirthmüller, M. Bartsch, J. Bautor, V. Pegadaraju, J. Louis, V. Singh, J. Reese, and J. Shah

Regulation of cell death in plants: A role for plant metacaspases?
Petra Epple, Nuria Sanchez Coll, Charles Clover, and Jeffery L. Dangl

Members of the IId subfamily WRKY transcription factors act as negative regulators of resistance in Arabidopsis
Noëllie Journot-Catalino, Imre E. Somssich, Dominique Roby, and Thomas Kroj

A MYB transcription factor regulates fatty acid biosynthesis for the activation of the hypersensitive cell death in Arabidopsis
Sylvain Raffaele, Fabienne Vailleau, Amandine Léger, Jérôme Joubes, Elisabeth Blée, Frédéric Domergue, Sébastien Mongrand, and Dominique Roby

New insights into the molecular events underlying systemic acquired resistance
T. E. Mishina, T. Griebel, M. Geuecke, E. Attaran, and J. Zeier

Functional constraints and evolutionary dynamics of the Rx1/Gpa2 cluster in potato
Patrick Butterbach, Erik Slootweg, Kamila Koropacka, Pjotr Prins, Jan Roosien, Laurentiu Spiridon, Andrei Petrescu, Geert Smant, Erin Bakker, Jaap Bakker, and Aska Goverse

Rac GTPase regulates reactive oxygen production by binding to the N-terminal extension of NADPH oxidase in rice
Hann Ling Wong, Reinhard Pinontoan, Kokoro Hayashi, Ryo Tabata, Takashi Yaeno, Kana Hasegawa, Chojiro Kojima, Hirofumi Yoshioka, Koh Iba, Tsutomu Kawasaki, and Ko Shimamoto

Integrating molecular evolution and desolvation energy analyses to dissect protein-protein recognition: The PG-PGIP interaction
Manuela Casasoli, Luca Federici, Nicoletta Vella, Juan Fernandez-Recio, Adele Di Matteo, Benedetta Mattei, Felice Cervone, and Giulia De Lorenzo

Chapter 7: Common host mechanisms, plant hormones and non-host resistance

Genetic and genomic studies of plant defense signaling pathways
Xinnian Dong, Wendy Durrant, Rebecca Mosher, Junqi Song, Dong Wang, and Shui Wang

Signaling specificity and complexity of MAPK cascades in plant innate immunity
Jen Sheen, Ping He, Libo Shan, Yan Xiong, Guillaume Tena, Sangdong Yoo, Younghee Cho, Marie Boudsocq, and Horim Lee

Characterization of Arabidopsis MAMP response pathways
Carine Denoux, Roberta Galletti, Simone Ferrari, Wisuwat Songnuan, Cristian Danna, Yves Millet, Nicole K. Clay, Suresh Gopalan, Giulia De Lorenzo, Julia Dewdney, and Frederick M. Ausubel

A seedling assay for MAMP signaling and infection studies
Wisuwat Songnuan, Yves Millet, Carine Denoux, Nicole K. Clay, Cristian Danna, and Frederick M. Ausubel

Basal defence in Arabidopsis against Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola: Beyond FLS2?
Alec Forsyth, Nina Grabov, Marta De Torres, and John Mansfield

A novel function for indole glucosinolate degradation products in Arabidopsis non-host immunity
Paweł Bednarek, Mariola Piślewska-Bednarek, Ales Svatos, Bernd Schneider, and Paul Schulze-Lefert

The Arabidopsis BRI1-associated receptor kinase 1 (BAK1) controls infection-induced cell death and immunity to necrotrophic fungal infection
Birgit Kemmerling, Anne Schwedt, Patricia Rodriguez, Sara Mazzotta, and Thorsten Nürnberger

A gain-of-function mutation in a LysM-RLK affects Arabidopsis non-host resistance to fungal pathogens
Ulrike S. Lipka, Elena Petutschnig, and Volker Lipka

Roles of DELLA proteins in plant defence and susceptibility
Rajendra Bari, Lionel Navarro, and Jonathan D. G. Jones

Arbuscular mycorrhiza mutants in Lotus japonicus
Kristina Haage, Martin Groth, Sonja Kosuta, and Martin Parniske

Phytohormones in disease and defence – the role of ABA
Marta de Torres Zabala, Bill Truman, Mark Bennett, Silvia Forcat, Gail Preston, John Mansfield, and Murray Grant

Susceptibility and resistance during necrotrophic interactions are influenced by the plant’s hormone balance
Victor Flors, Jurriaan Ton, and Brigitte Mauch-Mani

Roles of brassinosteroid in disease resistance in plants
Hideo Nakashita, Michiko Yasuda, Miyuki Kusajima, Hideki Takahashi, Tadao Asami, and Shigeo Yoshida

The transcription factor AtMYC2 shapes plant defense responses in Arabidopsis upon Pieris rapae herbivory
Adriaan Verhage, Martin De Vos, Marcel Dicke, and Corné M. J. Pieterse

Chapter 8: Biocontrol interactions and biotechnology

Selection, monitoring, and enhancement of bacterial biocontrol agents
Linda S. Thomashow, Stacey B. Bankhead, Kurtis L. Schroeder, Dmitri V. Mavrodi, and David M. Weller

Biological control of avocado Dematophora root rot and tomato foot and root rot
Francisco M. Cazorla, Diego Romero, Alejandro Pérez-García, Antonio Vicente, Simon B. Duckett, Ed T. Bergström, Sadaf Noreen, Roeland Odijk, Ben J. J. Lugtenberg, Jane E. Thomas-Oates, and Guido V. Bloemberg

Genomic analysis of secondary metabolite production by Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5
Joyce E. Loper, Denny Bruck, Maria Pechy-Tarr, Monika Maurhofer, Christoph Keel, and Harald Gross

Is biofilm formation a requirement for rhizosphere colonization?
Emma Barahona, Ana Navazo, Miguel Redondo-Nieto, Francisco Martínez-Granero, Daniel Aguirre De Cárcer, Marta Martín, and Rafael Rivilla

Dynamic communication between plants and rhizobacteria via volatile signals
Choong-Min Ryu, Hwe-Su Yi, Yeo-Rim Ahn, Won-il Kim, Huiming Zhang, Seung-Hwan Park, Chang Seuk Park, Mohamed A. Farag, Paul W. Paré, and Joseph W. Kloepper

Quorum sensing as a target for novel biocontrol strategies directed at Pectobacterium
Yves Dessaux, Amélie Cirou, Stéphane Uroz, Emilie Chapelle, Xavier Latour, and Denis Faure

Listening to the molecular cross-talk between plants, pathogens and biocontrol fungi
Sheridan Lois Woo, Michelina Ruocco, Francesco Vinale, Roberta Marra, Stefania Lanzuise, Felice Scala, and Matteo Lorito

Possible role of Trichoderma peptaibols in plant induced resistance
Yariv Brotman, Eden Briff, Ada Viterbo, and Ilan Chet

Interactions of Trichoderma spp. with plants
Gary E. Harman and Michel Shoresh

Oxalate-degrading bacteria can protect Arabidopsis thaliana and crop plants against Botrytis cinerea
Henk-jan Schoonbeek, Sibylle Ackermann, Francine Balet, Francesca Stefanato, and Jean-Pierre Métraux

Unholy trinity of crop, attached parasitic weed, and transgenic biocontrol agents
Sagit Meir, Yoav Herschkovitz, Clemence Larroche, Hani Al-Ahmad, Ziva Amsellem, and Jonathan Gressel

Virus-resistant transgenic crops: Insights into their environmental impact after the first decade of release
Marc Fuchs

Chapter 9: The impact of ‘omics’

The effector repertoire of Phytophthora sojae: structure, function and evolution
Brett M. Tyler, Daolong Dou, Shiv D. Kale, Rays H. Y. Jiang, Yubo Chen, Qunqing Wang, Xia Wang, Felipe D. Arredondo, and Yuanchao Wang

Genome evolution of fungal plant pathogens
Christina Cuomo, Manfred Grabherr, Chinnappa Kodira, Li-Jun Ma, Evan Mauceli, Matthew Pearson, James Galagan, Jacquie Schein, Les Szabo, Corby Kistler, and Bruce Birren

Construction of coexpression networks to explore barley-powdery mildew interactions
M. J. Moscou, R. A. Caldo, N. Lauter, and R. P. Wise

A multi-faceted genomics approach toward understanding Magnaporthe-rice interactions
Ryohei Terauchi, Joe Win, Sophien Kamoun, Hideo Matsumura, Hiromasa Saitoh, Kentaro Yoshida, Shizuko Fujisawa, Matt Shenton, Thomas Berberich, Akiko Ito, Yoshitaka Takano, and Yukio Tosa