University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

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Plant RNA-silencing immunity and viral counter-defence strategies / Santiago Wadsworth and Patrice Dunoyer -- Mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades in plant defence responses / Fengming Song, Huijuan Zhang and Shuqun Zhang -- Molecular mechanisms of the radical burst in plant immunity / Hirofumi Yoshioka ... [et al.] -- Disease resistance in arabidopsis, starring TGA2 and also featuring NPR1 / Patrick Boyle, Pierre R. Fobert, and Charles Despres -- Disease resistance genes / Melanie A. Sacco and Peter Moffett -- Transcription factor families involved in plant defence / Jean-Sebastien Parent ... [et al.] -- Cross talk between induced plant immune systems / Gonz�alez-Lamothe Roc�io ... [et al.] -- The needle and the damage done: type III effectors and the plant immune response / Jennifer D. Lewis, Karl Schreiber and Darrell Desveaux -- Virulence determinants and the global regulation of virulence in Xanthomonas campestris / Adri�an A. Vojnov, J. Maxwell Dow, Kamal Bouarab -- Suppression of induced plant defence responses by fungal and oomycete pathogens / Abdelbasset El Hadrami, Ismail El Hadrami, and Fouad Daayf -- Sustainable agriculture and the AMF multigenomic model: how advances in AMF genetics will change soil management practices / Erin Zimmerman, Marc St-Arnaud, and Mohamed Hijri -- Microbial traits associated with actinobacteria interacting with plants / Anne-Marie Simao-Beaunoir, Sebastien Roy, Carole Beaulieu -- Insight into fusarium-cereal pathogenesis / Rajagopal Subramaniam ... [et al.].

"Plants have evolved both general and highly specialized defence mechanisms that function to prevent diseases caused by the majority of microbial pathogens they encounter. There have been major developments in the field of plant microbe interactions in recent years due to newly developed techniques and the availability of new genomic information. Molecular-Plant Microbe Interactions explores these new discoveries, focusing primarily on the mechanisms controlling plant disease resistance, the cross-talk among the pathways involved and the strategies used by fungi and viruses to suppress these defences."--Publisher's description.