Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 2

pathogens.- A family of avirulence genes from Xanthomonasoryzae pv. Oryzae is involved in resistant interactions in rice.- Further characterization of genes encoding extracellular polysaccharide of Pseudomonas solanacearum and their regulation.- Physiological and genetic regulation of a pectate lyase structural gene, pel-I of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora strain 71.- Oxidative stress response in Xanthomonas oryzae.- Involvement of Pseudomonas Solanacearumhrp genes on the secretion of a bacterial compound which induces a hypersensitive-like response on tobacco.- Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola-plant interactions: Host-pathogen signalling through cascade control of hrp gene expression.- Molecular genetic analysis of hrp and avirulence genes of Xanthomonascampestris pv. Vesicatoria.- Are harpins universal elicitors of the hypersensitive response of phytopathogenic bacteria?.- Molecular cloning and functions of avirulence and pathogenicity genes of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum.- Genome dynamics and pathotype evolution in the rice blast fungus.- Molecular basis of specificity in maize leaf spot disease.- The genetics of dimorphism in the smut fungi.- Genetical and functional organization of the a mating type locus of Ustilagomaydis.- Root nodule organogenesis and formation of the peribacteroid membrane compartment.- Early events in alfalfa nodule development.- Rhizobium nod metabolites and early nodulin gene expression.- Mechanisms of cell and tissue invasion by Rhizobium leguminosarum: The role of cell surface interactions.- Control of infection in the alfalfa-Rhizobium memiloti symbiosis.- Induction of genes encoding phenylpropanoid biosynthetic enzymes in soybean roots inoculated with B.japonicum, requires NOD gene induction and occurs independent of any known host functions.- Analysis of the Arabidopsis defense response to Pseudomonas pathogens.- Genetic approaches to an understanding of specific resistance responses of Arabidopsis thaliana against phytopathogenic Pseudomonads.- Identification of an Arabidopsis locus that governs avirulence gene-specific disease resistance.- Plant and bacterial genes involved in interactions between Xanthomonas and crucifers.- The identification and mapping of loci in Arabidopsis thaliana for recognition of the fungal pathogens: Peronospora parasitica (downy mildew) and Albugo candida (white blister).- Screening methods for Arabidopsis mutants affected in the signal transduction pathways leading to defense responses.- Towards positional cloning of the Pto bacterial resistance locus from tomato.- Studies on the mechanism by which tomato Cf (Cladosporium fulvum) resistance genes activate plant defence.- Molecular biology and biochemistry of Hml, a maize gene for fungal resistance.- Transposon tagging of a rust resistance gene in maize.- Glucan elicitor-binding proteins and signal transduction in the activation of plant defence.- Elicitor recognition and intracellular signal transduction in plant defense.- Transcriptional regulation of phytoalexin biosynthetic genes.- Mutagenesis of a race-specific rust resistance gene in Antirrhinum majus using a transposon-tagging protocol.- Molecular markers and genome analysis in the manipulation of lettuce downy mildew.- Systematic acquired resistance in tobacco: Use of transgenic expression to study the functions of pathogenesis-related proteins.- Genetic and biochemical determinants of phenazine antibiotic production in fluorescent pseudomonads that suppress take-all disease of wheat.- A biological sensor for iron that is available to Pseudomonas fluorescens inhabiting the plant rhizosphere.- Characteristics and applications of antibodies produced in plants.- Application of microinjection technique for the analysis of gene expression during host-parasite interaction.- Resistance to Rhizoctonia solani in transgenic tobacco.- Antibacterial resistance of transgenic potato plants producing T4 lysozyme.- Pathogen-derived strategy to produce transgenic plants resistant to the bacterial toxin phaseolotoxin.- A universally conserved vital protein revealed by victorin binding.- Nitrogen fixation of Azorhizobium in artificially induced root para-nodules in wheat.- Name Index.