Fungal Disease Resistance in Plants

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Genetic Engineering

By: Zamir Punja (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Fungal Disease Resistance in Plants: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Genetic Engineering presents the latest developments in crop protection from fungal infection. Leading experts in botany, plant breeding, and plant pathology contribute their knowledge to help reduce and possibly prevent new outbreaks of devastating crop epidemics caused by fungi. With 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.

Fungal Disease Resistance in Plants is your guide to understanding the various barriers that plants have developed through evolution and adaptation to protect themselves from invading fungal pathogens. Defenses include physical barriers such as thick cell walls and chemical compounds expressed by the plant when attacked. Still other plants have acquired proteins that play an important role in defense. This book discusses these evolutionary traits and introduces new scientific techniques to engineer resistance in plants that have no built-in protection.

Fungal Disease Resistance in Plants explores:

cellular expression of resistance to fungal pathogens
the hypersensitive response and its role in disease resistance
induced plant resistance to fungal pathogens?mechanisms and practical applications
pathogenesis-related proteins and their roles in resistance to fungal pathogens
signal transduction?plant networks, delivery, and response to fungal infection
fungus genes as they relate to disease susceptibility and resistance

Without intense research and scientific study, catastrophic harvest failures due to fungal diseases could cause food shortages, human and animal poisonings, and economic loss throughout the world. Augmented with tables, figures, and extensive references, this state-of-the-art source of research material is valuable for scientists and researchers in universities, private organizations, government institutions, and agricultural organizations interested in plant defenses and future crop preservation.

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About the Editor	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Signal Transduction in Plant Defense Responses to Fungal Infection	p. 1
Introduction and Background	p. 1
Signals and Signal Delivery in Plant-Fungus/Oomycete Interactions	p. 5
Signal Perception-A Complex Matter	p. 8
Cellular Signaling-A Matter of Networks	p. 11
Conclusions	p. 20
Cellular Expression of Resistance to Fungal Plant Pathogens	p. 31
Introduction	p. 31
Background	p. 33
Detailed Review	p. 36
Use of Transgenic Plants to Study Expression of Resistance at the Cellular Level	p. 46
Current Work in Our Laboratory	p. 47
Concluding Remarks	p. 48
The Hypersensitive Response and Its Role in Disease Resistance	p. 57
Introduction	p. 57
Features of the Hypersensitive Response	p. 59
Proteins Involved in Pathogen Recognition and Initiation of HR Cell Death	p. 60
Small Molecules Involved in Signaling and Execution of HR Cell Death	p. 66
Negative Regulatory Components	p. 68
Is Protein Degradation Important for Execution of HR Cell Death?	p. 71
The Role of Cell Organelles in HR Induction	p. 74
Is HR Cell Death Required for Resistance?	p. 76
Do Plant Pathogens Modulate the HR in an Active Manner?	p. 79
Development of Transgenic Plants: Exploitation of HR for Disease Control	p. 82
Conclusions and Future Directions	p. 84
Fungal (A)Virulence Factors at the Crossroads of Disease Susceptibility and Resistance	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Background	p. 95
Fungal (A)Virulence Genes with Genotype and Species Specificity	p. 97
Pathogens with Evolved Mechanisms to Counteract Plant Defense Responses	p. 114
Plant Genes that Confer Resistance Toward Fungi and Oomycetes	p. 115
Perception of Avr Gene Products by Resistant Plant Genotypes	p. 120
Development of Transgenic Plants that Display Broad Resistance Against Pathogens	p. 125
Conclusions and Future Directions	p. 127
Pathogenesis-Related Proteins and Their Roles in Resistance to Fungal Pathogens	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
Classification of PR Proteins	p. 141
Nondefense Functions of PR Proteins and PR-Like Proteins	p. 149
Natural and Synthetic Elicitors of PR-Protein Genes	p. 151
Mechanisms That Protect Pathogens from PR Proteins	p. 156
Transgenic Plants Expressing Single Genes for PR Proteins	p. 158
Transgenic Plants with Combinations of PR Proteins	p. 161
Conclusions	p. 166
Induced Plant Resistance to Fungal Pathogens: Mechanisms and Practical Applications	p. 179
Introduction	p. 179
Background	p. 181
Mechanisms of Induced Resistance to Fungal Pathogens	p. 182
The Application of Induced Resistance	p. 191
Transgenic Plants and Induced Resistance to Fungi	p. 198
Current Research Program on Induced Resistance in Cucumber	p. 199
Conclusions	p. 200
Genetic Engineering of Plants to Enhance Resistance to Fungal Pathogens	p. 207
Introduction	p. 207
Genetic Engineering Approaches	p. 209
Activation of Plant Defense Responses	p. 216
Resistance Genes (R Genes)	p. 220
Challenges	p. 221
Index	p. 259
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