Molecular plant pathology (Annual plant reviews vol 4)

This volume addresses a subject of direct relevance to crop yield and therefore of major economic significance. Directed equally at academic and industrial readers, it covers three main areas of molecular plant pathology : how pathogens cause disease , how plants resist disease and exploitation of molecular plant pathology in the biotechnological control of disease.

Fungal pathogenicity : establishing infection , the infection process. Bacterial pathogenicity. Viral pathogenicity. Genetic analysis and evolution of plant disease resistance genes. Resistance genes and resistance protein function. Signalling in plant disease resistance. Programmed cell death in plants in response to pathogen attack. Systemic acquired resistance. Transgenic approaches to disease-resistant plants as exemplified by viruses. Emerging technologies and their application in the study of host-pathogen interactions.