Molecular Plant Pathology - 13 (1-2), 2012

Molecular Plant Pathology - 13 (1), 2012


Contents:

Pathogen profile


Grapevine powdery mildew (Erysiphe necator): a fascinating system for the study of the biology, ecology and epidemiology of an obligate biotroph (pages 1–16)

DAVID M. GADOURY, LANCE CADLE-DAVIDSON, WAYNE F. WILCOX, IAN B. DRY, ROBERT C. SEEM and MICHAEL G. MILGROOM


Original articles


454-pyrosequencing of Coffea arabica leaves infected by the rust fungus Hemileia vastatrix reveals in planta-expressed pathogen-secreted proteins and plant functions in a late compatible plant–rust interaction (pages 17–37)

DIANA FERNANDEZ, EMILIE TISSERANT, PEDRO TALHINHAS, HELENA AZINHEIRA, ANA VIEIRA, ANNE-SOPHIE PETITOT, ANDREIA LOUREIRO, JULIE POULAIN, CORINNE DA SILVA, MARIA DO CÉU SILVA and SÉBASTIEN DUPLESSIS


Analysis of the role of the coat protein N-terminal segment in Potato virus X virion stability and functional activity (pages 38–45)

ELENA LUKASHINA, ALEXANDER KSENOFONTOV, NATALIA FEDOROVA, GENNADY BADUN, ANNA MUKHAMEDZHANOVA, OLGA KARPOVA, NINA RODIONOVA, LYUDMILA BARATOVA and EVGENY DOBROV


Analysis of Arabidopsis JAZ gene expression during Pseudomonas syringae pathogenesis (pages 46–57)

AGNES J. DEMIANSKI, KWI MI CHUNG and BARBARA N. KUNKEL


CorA, the magnesium/nickel/cobalt transporter, affects virulence and extracellular enzyme production in the soft rot pathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum (pages 58–71)

CALEB M. KERSEY, PAUL A. AGYEMANG and C. KORSI DUMENYO


Building a mutant resource for the study of disease resistance in rice reveals the pivotal role of several genes involved in defence (pages 72–82)

AMANDINE DELTEIL, MÉLISANDE BLEIN, ODILE FAIVRE-RAMPANT, AMIRA GUELLIM, JOAN ESTEVAN, JUDITH HIRSCH, ROSANGELA BEVITORI, CORINNE MICHEL and JEAN-BENOIT MOREL


Rice WRKY45 plays important roles in fungal and bacterial disease resistance (pages 83–94)

MASAKI SHIMONO, HIRONORI KOGA, AYA AKAGI, NAGAO HAYASHI, SHINGO GOTO, MIYUKI SAWADA, TAKAYUKI KURIHARA, AKANE MATSUSHITA, SHOJI SUGANO, CHANG-JIE JIANG, HISATOSHI KAKU, HARUHIKO INOUE and HIROSHI TAKATSUJI


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Molecular Plant Pathology - 13 (2), 2012




Contents:


Pathogen profile


Plasmodiophora brassicae: a review of an emerging pathogen of the Canadian canola (Brassica napus) crop (pages 105–113)

SHEAU-FANG HWANG, STEPHEN E. STRELKOV, JIE FENG, BRUCE D. GOSSEN and RON J. HOWARD


Original articles


Analysis of polymorphism and transcription of the effector gene Avr1b in Phytophthora sojae isolates from China virulent to Rps1b (pages 114–122)

LINKAI CUI, WEIXIAO YIN, SUOMENG DONG and YUANCHAO WANG


The tomato UV-damaged DNA-binding protein-1 (DDB1) is implicated in pathogenesis-related (PR) gene expression and resistance to Agrobacterium tumefaciens (pages 123–134)

JIKAI LIU, HANJING LI, MIN MIAO, XIAOFENG TANG, JIM GIOVANNONI, FANGMING XIAO and YONGSHENG LIU


Regulation of basal resistance by a powdery mildew-induced cysteine-rich receptor-like protein kinase in barley (pages 135–147)

CBGOWDA RAYAPURAM, MICHAEL K. JENSEN, FABIAN MAISER, JOHANNA VIKGREN SHANIR, HENRIK HORNSHOJ, JESPER H. RUNG, PER L. GREGERSEN, PATRICK SCHWEIZER, DAVID B. COLLINGE and MICHAEL F. LYNGKJAR


Characterization of polygenic resistance to powdery mildew in tomato at cytological, biochemical and gene expression level (pages 148–159)

CHENGWEI LI, LUIGI FAINO, LIN DONG, JUNMEI FAN, LEVENTE KISS, CLAUDIO DE GIOVANNI, ALES LEBEDA, JOHN SCOTT, YOSHINORI MATSUDA, HIDEYOSHI TOYODA, PIM LINDHOUT, RICHARD G. F. VISSER, GUUSJE BONNEMA and YULING BAI


Genetic characterization of the HrpL regulon of the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora reveals novel virulence factors (pages 160–173)

R. RYAN MCNALLY, IAN K. TOTH, PETER J. A. COCK, LEIGHTON PRITCHARD, PETE E. HEDLEY, JENNY A. MORRIS, YOUFU ZHAO and GEORGE W. SUNDIN


Species' identification and microarray-based comparative genome analysis of Streptomyces species isolated from potato scab lesions in Norway (pages 174–186)

MERETE W. DEES, PANU SOMERVUO, ERIK LYSOE, MARJA AITTAMAA and JARI P. T. VALKONEN


Pectate lyase affects pathogenicity in natural isolates of Colletotrichum coccodes and in pelA gene-disrupted and gene-overexpressing mutant lines (pages 187–197)

BAT-HEN BEN-DANIEL, DUDY BAR-ZVI and LEAH TSROR (LAHKIM)


Potato virus X movement in Nicotiana benthamiana: new details revealed by chimeric coat protein variants (pages 198–203)

CAMILLA BETTI, CHIARA LICO, DARIO MAFFI, SIMONE D'ANGELI, MARIA MADDALENA ALTAMURA, EUGENIO BENVENUTO, FRANCO FAORO and SELENE BASCHIERI


Review


Facilitative and antagonistic interactions between plant viruses in mixed infections (pages 204–216)

JERZY SYLLER


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