Plant-Microbe Interactions, 1997

Scientists are continually making exciting discoveries concerning the interactions between microbes and plants, interactions which may be damaging, in the case of plant pathogens, or beneficial, as in the case of nitrogen fixation. This new volume in the successful and well received Chapman & Hall Plant-Microbe Interaction series is an exciting and broad-ranging view of the outstanding work being done in this area.

1 The Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis.- 2 Signal Transduction Pathways of the Plant Oxidative Burst.- 3 Induction of the Hypersensitive Response and Systemic Acquired Resistance by Fungal Proteins: The Case of Elicitins.- 4 Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Proteins (PGIPs): Their Role in Specificity and Defense against Pathogenic Fungi.- 5 Northern Corn Leaf Spot: Chemistry, Enzymology, and Molecular Genetics of a Host-Selective Phytotoxin.- 6 Phytotoxin Production inPseudomonas syringae.- 7 The hrp-Encoded Protein Export Systems ofPseudomonas syringaeand Other Plant Pathogenic Bacteria and Their Role in Pathogenicity.

This new volume is an exciting and broad-ranging view of the outstanding work being done in this area. It includes information and scientific dIscoveries concerning the interactions between microbe and plants, interactions that may be damaging, in the case of plant pathogenes, or beneficial, as in the case of nitrogen fixation.