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Book SynopsisGenetics has transformed plant pathology on two occasions: first when Mendelian genetics enabled the discovery that disease resistance was a heritable trait in plants, and secondly when Flor proposed the gene-for-gene hypothesis to explain his observations of plant-parasite interactions, based on his work on flax rust in North Dakota starting in the 1930s. Our knowledge of the genetics of disease resistance and host-pathogen coevolution is now entering a new phase as a result of the cloning of the first resistance genes. This book provides a broad review of recent developments in this important and expanding subject. Both agricultural and natural host-pathogen situations are addressed. While most of the book focuses on plant pathology, in the usual sense of the term embracing fungal, bacterial and viral pathogens, there is also consideration of parasitic plants and a chapter demonstrating lessons to be learnt from the mammalian immune system. Three overall themes are addressed: genetic
Table of Contents1: Contributors 2: Preface Part One: Genetic Analyses and Utilization of Resistance 3: Organization of Resistance Genes in Arabidopsis, 4: Genetic Fine Structure of Resistance Loci, 5: Mutation Analysis for the Dissection of Resistance, 6: Cultivar Mixtures in Intensive Agriculture, 7: Crop Resistance to Parasitic Plants, Part Two: Population Genetics 8: The UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey, 9: Adaptation of Powdery Mildew Populations to Cereal Varieties in Relation to Durable and Non-durable Resistance 10: Virulence Dynamics and Genetics of Cereal Rust Populations in North America, 11: Interpreting Population Genetic Data with the Help of Genetic Linkage Maps U E Brändle, 12: Modelling Virulence Dynamics of Airborne Plant Pathogens in Relation to Selection by Host Resistance in Agricultural Crops, 13: An Epidemiological Approach to Modelling the Dynamics of Gene-for-gene Interactions, 14: Modelling Gene Frequency Dynamics, 15: The Genetic Structure of Natural Pathosystems, 16: The Evolution of Gene-for-Gene Interactions in Natural Pathosystems, Part Three: Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics 17: Structural and Biochemical Characterization of Gene-for-Gene Interactions, 18: The Molecular Genetics of Specificity Determinants in Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, 19: Molecular Characterization of Fungal Avirulence, 20: The Molecular Genetics of Plant-Virus Interactions, 21: Molecular Genetics of Disease Resistance: An End to the “Gene-for-Gene” Concept?, 22: Elicitor Generation and Receipt - The Mail Gets Through, But How?, 23: Learning from the Mammalian Immune System in the Wake of The R-Gene Flood, 24: Genetic Disease Control in Plants - Where Now?, 25: Index
