University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Many plant diseases are caused by living organisms (called pathogens) such as fungi, bacteria,viruses, nematodes, phytoplasmas, protozoa, and parasitic plants. New diseases and changes in existing pathogens remain a constant threat to out forests, food and fibre crops, and landscape plants, making this study exxential to todays economy, health and society

Theme and variations in the evolutionary pathways to virulence of an RNA plant virus species, large bottlenece size in cauliflower mosaic virus populations during host plant colonization, quorum sensing coordinates brute force, diversification of rice yellow mottle virus and related viruses, defence reactions in the apoplastic proteome, systemic resistance and lipoxygenase-related defence response, host plant mediate effects of nadefensin roles of arabidopsis WRKY3 and WRKY4 transcripting factors in plant responses to pathogens integrated regulation of the type III secretion sytem and other virulence determinants, rapid and dynamic subcellular reorganization, imbalanced lignin biosyntesis, multiple infections by the anther smut pathogen common processes in pathogenesis characterization of protease