About the book

Molecular Plant Immunity provides 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 Immunity opens 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