RECENT ADVANCES IN PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Volume 32

Phytochemical Signals and Plant-Microbe Interactions

 

Edited by

John T. Romeo
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida

Kelsey R. Downum
Department of Biological Sciences
Florida International University
Miami, FL

Rov Verpoorte
Center for Bio-Pharm. Science
Leiden, Netherlands

PLENUM PRESS, NEW YORK AND LONDON

 

CONTENTS

Saponins and plant defense

Anne E. Osbourn, Jos P. Wubben, Rachel E. Melton, Jonathan P. Carter and Michael J. Davis 

Role of toxins in plant microbe interactions

Susan P. McCormick, Thomas M. Hohn, Anne E. Desjardins, Robert H. Proctor and Nancy J. Alexander 

Active Oxygen in fungal pathogenesis of plants: the role of cercosporin in Cecospora diseases

Margaret E. Daub, Marilyn Ehrenshaft, Anne E. Jenns, and Kuang-Ren Chung 

Tree-fungus interactions in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis

Roger T. Koide, Laura Suomi, Robert Berghage

Allelochemicals in root exudates of maize: effects of root lesion nematode Pratylenchus zeae

Annette Friebe, Wilma Klever, Richard Sikora and Heide Schnabl

Chemical signals in the plant-nematode interactions: a complex system?

Godelieve Gheysen 

Salicylic acid-mediated signal transduction in plant disease resistance

Daniel F. Klessig, Jorg Duirner, Jyoti Shah and Yinong Yang

Biosynthesis of rhizobial exopolysaccharides and their role in the root nodule symbiosis of leguminous plants

Wilbert A. T. van Workum and Jan W. Kijne

Flavonoids as regulators of plant development: new insights from studies of lant-rhizovbia interactions

Herman P. Spaink 

Fatty acid-derived signaling molecules in the interactions of plants with their environment

Elmar W. Weiler, Dietmar Ludert, Florian Schaller, Boguslava Stelmach and Peter Hennig

Interactions between Agrobacterium tumefaciens and plant cells Paul

Bundock and Paul Hooykaas 

Wound and defense repsonses in Cassava as realted to post-harvest physiological deterioration

John R. Beeching, Yuanhuai Han, Rocio Gomez-Vazquez, Robert C. Day, and Richard M. Cooper