Molecular Plant Immunity

Molecular Plant Immunityprovides an integrated look at both well-established and emerging concepts in plant disease resistance providing the most current information on this important vitally important topic within plant biology. Understanding the molecular basis of the plant immune system has implications on the development of new varieties of sustainable crops, understanding the challenges plant life will face in changing environments, as well as providing a window into immune function that could have translational appeal to human medicine. Molecular Plant Immunityopens with chapters reviewing how the first line of plant immune response is activated followed by chapters looking at the molecular mechanisms that allow fungi, bacteria, and oomycetes to circumvent those defenses. Plant resistance proteins, which provide the second line of plant immune defense, are then covered followed by chapters on the role of hormones in immunity and the mechanisms that modulate specific interaction between plants and viruses. The final chapters look at model plant-pathogen systems to review interaction between plants and fungal, bacterial, and viral pathogens. Contents: Chapter 1 The Rice Xa21 Immune Receptor Recognizes a Novel Bacterial Quorum Sensing Factor 1 Chang Jin Park and Pamela C. Ronald Chapter 2 Molecular Basis of Effector Recognition by Plant NB-LRR Proteins 23 Lisong Ma, Harrold A. van den Burg, Ben J. C. Cornelissen, and Frank L. W. Takken Chapter 3 Signal Transduction Pathways Activated by R Proteins 41 Gitta Coaker and Douglas Baker Chapter 4 The Roles of Salicylic Acid and Jasmonic Acid in Plant Immunity 55 Pradeep Kachroo and Aardra Kachroo Chapter 5 Effectors of Bacterial Pathogens: Modes of Action and Plant Targets 81 Feng Feng and Jian-Min Zhou Chapter 6 The Roles of Transcription Activator–Like (TAL) Effectors in Virulence and Avirulence of Xanthomonas 107 Aaron W. Hummel and Adam J. Bogdanove Chapter 7 Effectors of Fungi and Oomycetes: Their Virulence and Avirulence Functions and Translocation From Pathogen to Host Cells 123 Brett M. Tyler and Thierry Rouxel Chapter 8 Plant-Virus Interaction: Defense and Counter-Defense 169 Amy Wahba Foreman, Gail J. Pruss, and Vicki Vance Chapter 9 Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Interaction Between Tomato and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato 187 Andre C. Velasquez and Gregory B. Martin Chapter 10 Cladosporium fulvum–Tomato Pathosystem: Fungal Infection Strategy and Plant Responses 211 Bilal O kmen and Pierre J. G. M. de Wit Chapter 11 Cucumber Mosaic Virus–Arabidopsis Interaction: Interplay of Virulence Strategies and Plant Responses 225 Jack H. Westwood and John P. Carr Chapter 12 Future Prospects for Genetically Engineering Disease-Resistant Plants 251 Yan-Jun Chen, Michael F. Lyngkjær, and David B. Collinge