Fungal Disease Resistance in Plants : Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering
Contents: Foreword/Sophien Kamoun. Preface. 1. Signal transduction in plant defense responses to fungal infection/Dierk Scheel and Thorsten Nuernberger. 2. Cellular expression of resistance to fungal plant pathogens/Denny G. Mellersh and Michele C. Heath. 3. The hypersensitive response and its role in disease resistance/Hans-Peter Stuible and Erich Kombrink. 4. Fungal (A) virulence factors at the crossroads of disease susceptibility and resistance/N. Westerink, M.H.A.J. Joosten and P.J.G.M. De Wit. 5. Pathogenesis-related proteins and their roles in resistance to fungal pathogens/Jayaraman Jayaraj, Ajith Anand and Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan. 6. Induced plant resistance to fungal pathogens: mechanisms and practical applications/Ray Hammerschmidt. 7. Genetic engineering of plants to enhance resistance to fungal pathogens/Zamir K. Punja. Index.
"In Fungal Disease Resistance in Plants, Biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetic engineering, loading authorities in botany, plant breeding, and plant pathology share their expertise to help prevent outbreaks of crop diseases caused by fungi. Heralding exciting new advances in molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetic engineering, this informative book will help researchers, professors, and students further their understanding of plant defenses."
