This book brings together the knowledge from and tools for genetic and genomic research into oomycetes to help solve the problems this pathogen poses to crops and animals. Armed with the information presented here, researchers can use oomycete data to solve practical problems and gain insight into future areas of interest. Key Features: Offers an up-to-date coverage of research into oomycetes – which has advanced with biochemical and molecular analyses in recent years Helps researchers use oomycete data to solve practical problems, like damage to crop and animal resources Includes a section on interactions with animal hosts Offers perspective on future areas of research Assembles an international author base
This book describes how genomics has revolutionized our understanding of agriculturally important plant-associated fungi and oomycetes. It illustrates some fundamental discoveries about these eukaryotic microbes with regard to the overall structure of their genomes, their lifestyles and the molecular mechanisms that form the basis of their interactions with plants. Genomics has provided new insights into fungal lifestyles and led to practical advances in plant breeding and crop protection, such as predictions about the spread and evolution of new pathogens. This volume focuses on fungi and oomycetes that are typical dicot plant pathogens and includes: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Botrytis cinerea, Alternaria sp.,Verticillium alfalfae and Verticillium dahliae, Fusarium oxysporum, Phytophthora capsici, Phytophthora sojae, Phytophthora ramorum, Phytophthora infestans, Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis.
Fungi research and knowledge grew rapidly following recent advances in genetics and genomics. This book synthesizes new knowledge with existing information to stimulate new scientific questions and propel fungal scientists on to the next stages of research. This book is a comprehensive guide on fungi, environmental sensing, genetics, genomics, interactions with microbes, plants, insects, and humans, technological applications, and natural product development.
The sequencing of several fungi genomes has spurred major advances in the field. Fungal genomics has been having a pivotal impact on applied research in agriculture, food sciences, natural resource management, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology, as well as to basic studies in the life sciences. Fungal Genomics covers exciting new developments in this growth field, from genomic analysis to human fungal pathogen genomics, comparative genomics of fungi, and the genomics of fungal development. - Includes information on aspergillus genomes - Discusses sex and its role in virulence of human fungal pathogens - Covers the genomic analysis of neurospora
Advances in Genetics, Volume 105, provides the latest information on the rapidly evolving field of genetics, presenting new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of the topic. The book continually publishes important reviews of the broadest interest to geneticists and their colleagues in affiliated disciplines, critically analyzing future directions. - Critically analyzes future directions for the study of clinical genetics - Written and edited by recognized leaders in the field - Presents new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of genetics
This volume features a wide range of effective techniques for identifying, diagnosing, and controlling Phytophthora diseases. It also offers the most complete treatment of Phytophthora available, including descriptions of all species in the genus.
Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 34 Molecular Aspects of Plant Disease Resistance Edited by Jane Parker In recent years, our understanding of the mechanisms involved in plant resistance to disease has seen major advances. This important new volume in Wiley-Blackwell’s Annual Plant Reviews provides cutting edge reviews on major aspects of plant immunity from many of the world's leading researchers in the area. Coverage includes: • Establishment of disease by microbial pathogens • Genomic approaches to understanding host-pathogen interactions • Local and systemic resistance signalling • Activities of small bioactive molecules • Plant-insect ecology This exciting volume is essential reading for all those studying plant-pathogen interactions including plant and agricultural scientists, molecular biologists, geneticists and microbiologists. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where biological and agricultural sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this important volume on their shelves. About the Editor Dr Jane Parker is a Group Leader in the Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions at The Max-Planck Institute of Plant Breeding Research, Cologne and Associate Professor at The Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany. Also Available Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 33 Intracellular Signaling in Plants Edited by Zhenbiao Yang Print: 9781405160025 Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 32 Cell Cycle Control and Plant Development Edited by Dirk Inzé Print: 9781405150439 Online: 9780470988923 Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 31 Plant Mitochondria Edited by David Logan Print: 9781405149396 Online: 9780470986592 Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 30 Light and Plant Development Edited by Garry C. Whitelam and Karen J. Halliday Print: 9781405145381 Online: 9780470988893
Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research. Topics covered include the horticulture of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamentals. These review articles, written by world authorities, bridge the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of horticultural scientists and teachers.
Abstract: Genomics offers new perspectives for the discovery of novel genes in the oomycetes, a unique group of eukaryotic microbes comprising saprophytes as well as pathogens of plants and animals. Among the oomycetes, the most devastating plant pathogen is the potato and tomato late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans . Currently tens of thousands of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are available for P. infestans . The challenge of the post-genomic era is to link a sequence to a phenotype (functional genomics) with as little experimental effort as possible. In the first study, we combined EST data mining with functional assays to identify extracellular effector proteins from P. infestans, which can manipulate plant molecular and cellular processes to induce defense or disease like responses. We developed the PexFinder algorithm for automated identification of Phytophthora extracellular proteins (Pex). Using a virus based high throughput functional assay to express Pex cDNAs in Nicotiana benthamiana and tomato, we identified two novel necrosis inducing effectors crn1 and crn2, which are members of large gene family. crn1 and crn2 were demonstrated to be expressed during P. infestans infection on tomato. In addition, crn2 induced defense related genes in tomato. In a second study, we characterized a Pex cDNA, pipg1 which represents the first endopolygalacturonase (endoPG) described from P. infestans . Generally, endopolygalacturonases are plant cell wall degrading enzymes primarily found and characterized extensively in plants and fungi. We showed that pipg1 is a member of a gene family and is expressed in both preinfection and infection stages. Phylogenetic analyses showed an affinity of pipg1 to fungal endoPGs, a feature that contrasts with phylogenies obtained with ribosomal sequences or compiled mitochondrial and chromosomal genes. In a third study, We generated ESTs from a cDNA library constructed from mRNA of Saprolegnia parasitica, an oomycete pathogen that causes saprolegniasis in fish. We performed preliminary comparisons of abundance of selected ESTs between S. parasitica and P. infestans and assessed the implications for S. parasitica . The long-term objective of this project is to develop genomic resources from diverse oomycete pathogens for comparative genomics.
