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Genetic and Molecular Basis of Plant Pathogenesis

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  • © 1978

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Authors:
  1. J. E. Vanderplank

    1. Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

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Part of the book series: Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences (AGRICULTURAL, volume 6)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Variation in the Resistance of the Host and in the Pathogenicity of the Parasite

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    Pages 1-19

  3. The Gene-for-Gene and the Protein-for-Protein Hypotheses

    • J. E. Vanderplank
    Pages 20-42

  4. The Protein-for-Protein Hypothesis: Temperature Effects and Other Matters

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    Pages 43-82

  5. Common Antigenic Surfaces in Host and Pathogen

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    Pages 83-89

  6. Other Large Molecules in Relation to Gene-for-Gene Disease

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    Pages 90-99

  7. Population Genetics of the Pathogen

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    Pages 100-119

  8. Horizontal Resistance to Disease

    • J. E. Vanderplank
    Pages 120-135

  9. Selective Pathotoxins in Host-Pathogen Specificity

    • J. E. Vanderplank
    Pages 136-142

  10. A Molecular Hypothesis of Vertical and Horizontal Resistance

    • J. E. Vanderplank
    Pages 143-146

  11. Biotrophy, Necrotrophy, and the Lineage of Symbiosis

    • J. E. Vanderplank
    Pages 147-151

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 152-170
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About this book

As befits a volume in the Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, this book was written with problems of practical agriculture in mind. One of the ways of controlling plant disease is by using resistant cultivars; and from the wide literature of genetics and biochemistry in plant pathology I have emphasized what seems to bear most closely on breeding for disease resistance. This has a double advantage, for it happens all to the good that this emphasis is also an emphasis on primary causes of disease, as distinct from subsequent processes of symptom expression and other secondary effects. The chapters are entirely modern in outlook. The great revolution in biology this century had its high moments in the elucidation of the DNA double helix in 1953 and the deciphering of the genetic code in 1961. This book, so far as I know, is the first in plant pathology to be conceived within the framework of this new biology. Half the book could not have been written 20 years ago, even if there had then been available all the literature that has since accumulated on the genetics and chemistry of plant disease. The new biology is the cement this book uses to bind the literature together. Another feature of this book is an emphasis on thermodynamics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

    J. E. Vanderplank

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Genetic and Molecular Basis of Plant Pathogenesis

  • Authors: J. E. Vanderplank

  • Series Title: Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66965-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin ยท Heidelberg 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-66967-5Published: 16 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-66965-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-4207

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 170

  • Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Biochemistry

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology

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