Description
Book SynopsisThere have been major developments in the field of plant-microbe interactions in recent years, due to newly developed techniques and the availability of genomic information. Molecular Plant-microbe Interactions explores these new discoveries, focusing primarily on the mechanisms controlling plant disease resistance, the cross-talk among the pathways involved and the strategies used by the pathogens to suppress these defences. By exploring developments in plant defences, pathogen's counter-defences and mutually beneficial plant-microbe interactions, this book will be useful for researchers and students in plant pathology and plant biology-related areas.
Table of Contents1: Genomic Analyses of Microbial Processes in Biogeochemical Cycles 2: Applications of Nucleic Acid Microarrays in Soil Microbial Ecology 3: Metagenomics for the Study of Soil Microbial Communities 4: In Vivo Expression Technology (IVET) for Studying Niche-specific Gene Expression by Plant- and Soil-colonizing Bacteria 5: Analysing Microbial Community Structure by Means of Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) 6: Characterization of Phylloplane and Rhizosphere Microbial Populations Using PCR and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) 7: Molecular Tools for Studying Plant Growth-promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) 8: Detection of Autotrophic Sulphur- and Iron-oxidizing Bacteria Using Labelled Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs) 9: Molecular Analyses of Soil Denitrifying Bacteria 10: Ecology of Streptomyces in Soil and Rhizosphere 11: Molecular Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities: New Frontiers 12: Molecular Ecology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: a Review of PCR-based Techniques 13: Transcriptomics for Determining Gene Expression in Symbiotic Root–Fungus Interactions 14: Differentiation of Nitrogen-fixing Legume Root Nodule Bacteria (Rhizobia) 15: Molecular Markers for Studying the Ecology of Rhizobia 16: Molecular Characterization of Bacterial Plant Pathogens
