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The Fungal Spore and Disease Initiation in Plants and Animals

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  • © 1991

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  1. Garry T. Cole

    1. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

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  2. Harvey C. Hoch

    1. New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, USA

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Spore Attachment and Invasion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Adhesion of Fungi to the Plant Surface

      • Ralph L. Nicholson, Lynn Epstein
      Pages 3-23

    3. Signaling for Infection Structure Formation in Fungi

      • H. C. Hoch, R. C. Staples
      Pages 25-46

    4. The Plant Cell Wall as a Barrier to Fungal Invasion

      • M. G. Smart
      Pages 47-66

    5. Rust Basidiospore Germlings and Disease Initiation

      • Randall E. Gold, Kurt Mendgen
      Pages 67-99

    6. Attachment of Mycopathogens to Cuticle

      • Drion G. Boucias, Jacquelyn C. Pendland
      Pages 101-127

    7. The Fate of Fungal Spores in the Insect Gut

      • R. J. Dillon, A. K. Charnley
      Pages 129-156

    8. Candida Blastospore Adhesion, Association, and Invasion of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Vertebrates

      • Michael J. Kennedy
      Pages 157-180

    9. Infectious Propagules of Dermatophytes

      • Tadayo Hashimoto
      Pages 181-202

  3. Fungal Spore Products and Pathogenesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Melanin Biosynthesis

      • Yasuyuki Kubo, Iwao Furusawa
      Pages 205-218

    3. The Plant Cuticle

      • Wolfram Köller
      Pages 219-246

    4. Appearance of Pathogen-Related Proteins in Plant Hosts

      • Ingrid M. J. Scholtens-Toma, Matthieu H. A. J. Joosten, Pierre J. G. M. De Wit
      Pages 247-265

    5. The Role of Cuticle-Degrading Enzymes in Fungal Pathogenesis in Insects

      • A. K. Charnley, R. J. St. Leger
      Pages 267-286

    6. Potential for Penetration of Passive Barriers to Fungal Invasion in Humans

      • Frank C. Odds
      Pages 287-295

    7. Dihydroxynaphthalene (DHN) Melanin and Its Relationship with Virulence in the Early Stages of Phaeohyphomycosis

      • Dennis M. Dixon, Paul J. Szaniszlo, Annemarie Polak
      Pages 297-318

  4. Host Response to Early Fungal Invasion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-319
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    2. Invasion of Plants by Powdery Mildew Fungi, and Cellular Mechanisms of Resistance

      • James R. Aist, William R. Bushnell
      Pages 321-345

    3. Induced Systemic Resistance in Plants

      • Nageswara Rao Madamanchi, Joseph Kuć
      Pages 347-362
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This treatise is focused on early aspects of fungal pathogenesis in plant and animal hosts. Our aim in choosing the topics and contributors was to demonstrate common approaches to studies of fungal-plant and fungal-animal interactions, particularly at the biochemical and molecular Ievels. For example, the initial events of adh«sion of fungal spores to the exposed surface tissues of the host are essential for subsequent invasion of the plant or animal and establishment of pathogenesis. A point of consensus among investigators who have directed their attention to such events in plants, insects, and vertebrates isthat spore adhesion to the host cuticle or epithelium is more than a simple binding event. lt is a complex and potentially pivotal process in fungal-plant interactions which "may involve the secretion of ftuids that prepare the infection court for the development of morphological stages of the germling" and subsequent invasion of the host (Nicholson and Epstein, Chapter 1). The attachment of the fungal propagule to the arthropod cuticle is also "mediated by the chemical components present on the outer layer of the spore wall and the epicuticle . . . . Initial attachment may be reinforced further by either the active secretion of adhesive materials or the modification of spore wall materiallocated at the [fungal spore­ arthropod] cuticle interface (Boucias and Pendland, Chapter 5).

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Garry T. Cole

  • New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, USA

    Harvey C. Hoch

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