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Recognition and Response in Plant/Fungus Interactions

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Recognition and Response in Plant-Virus Interactions

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Abstract

Many different physical routes are taken by fungi during their colonization of plants and this variability applies important constraints on the type of signalling which is possible between host and pathogen. Thus, some fungi grow only within the intercellular spaces whereas others (notably the obligate parasites producing haustoria) make direct contact with the plant cell membrane. Mechanisms of resistance effective against the various strategies for parasitism adopted by fungi will be considered.

Varietal resistance is often expressed by a hypersensitive reaction (HR) to avirulent pathotypes but the more general resistance of non-host plants is usually associated with less dramatic and localized changes in plant cell walls, including deposition of lignin, silica and hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins. Carbohydrates have been shown to have the capacity to act as important signalling molecules, eliciting plant responses such as phytoalexin biosynthesis but the activity of oligosaccharides during infection is unclear. Elicitors with well defined cultivar and race-specific activity remain elusive.

Lettuce downy mildew disease caused by the obligate parasite Bremia lactucae has been used as a model system for studying the processes of recognition underlying racespecific resistance. Experiments will be described which will allow discussion of the identification of primary responses, the role of plasma membrane damage in the HR, the identification of elicitors of the HR and possible routes for the isolation of genespecific receptor proteins in lettuce.

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Mansfield, J. (1990). Recognition and Response in Plant/Fungus Interactions. In: Fraser, R.S.S. (eds) Recognition and Response in Plant-Virus Interactions. NATO ASI Series, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74164-7_3

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