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Advances in botanical research. Volume 21 /
The twenty-first volume in the series focuses on plant pathology and is the first to integrate Advances in Plant Pathology into Advances in Botanical Research. The articles represented strive both to draw insights from relevant biological disciplines into the realm of plant pathology and to reveal t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Academic Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Advances in botanical research ;
v. 21 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Advances in Botanical Research: Incorporating Advances in Plant Pathology; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors to Volume 21; Series Preface; Preface; Chapter 1. Defense Responses of Plants to Pathogens; I. Introduction; II. Pathogen Ingress and Plant Resistance; III. Classes of Plant Defense Responses; IV. Regulation of Defense Gene Expression; V. Defense Responses and Resistance; VI. Conclusions and Perspectives; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2. On the Nature and Genetic Basis for Resistance and Tolerance to Fungal Wilt Diseases of Plants; I. Introduction
- II. Updating the ModelsIII. The Relationship Between Vascular Colonization and Foliar Symptoms; IV. Colonization in Single Gene and Polygene Resistant Plants; V. How the Pathogen Colonizes the Host; VI. Molecular Aspects of Wilt Disease; VII. Integrating Host Resistance and Other Forms of Biological Control; VIII. The Expressive Phase of Disease Development; IX. Putting it All Together; References; Chapter 3. Implication of Population Pressure on Agriculture and Ecosystems; I. Introduction; II. Carrying Capacity, Technology, and Sustainability; III. Population Growth; IV. Feeding the Billions
- V. Agriculture's Resource BaseVI. Ecosystems and Agriculture; VII. Measuring Impacts; VIII. Nutritional Security; IX. The Rich-Poor Gap, Global Change, and Agriculture; X. The Outlook; References; A colour plate section appears between pages 80-81; Chapter 4. Plant Virus Infection: Another Point of View; I. Introduction; II. The Plant as a Medium for Virus Replication; III. Level I Interactions: Virus Destabilizing Events at the Cell Surface; IV. Level II Interactions: The First Cycle of Replication; V. Level III Interactions: Cell-to-cell and Long-distance Spread of the Infection
- VI. ConclusionAcknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. The Pathogens and Pests of Chestnuts; I. Introduction; II. Ink Disease; III. Chestnut Blight; IV. Chestnut Germplasm; V. Conclusion; References; Chapter 6. Fungal Avirulence Genes and Plant Resistance Genes: Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Gene-for-gene Interactions; I. Introduction; II. Fungal Avirulence Genes and Their Products; III. Defense Responses Induced by Race-Specific Elicitors; IV. Receptors for Race-specific Elicitors of C. fulvum; V. Fungal Resistance Genes in Plants
- VI. Conclusions and Future Prospects for Exploitation of Avirulence Genes and Resistance GenesAcknowledgements; References; Chapter 7. Phytoplasmas: Can Phylogeny Provide the Means to Understand Pathogenicity; I. Introduction; II. Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Mollicutes and MLOs; III. Prospects for Characterizing and Expressing Phytoplasma Genes; IV. Candidate Model Systems for Identifying Phytoplasma Plant Pathogenicity, Host Range, and Insect Transmission Genes; V. Summary; References; Chapter 8. Use of Categorical Information and Correspondence Analysis in Plant Disease Epidemiology