Effectors in Plant–Microbe Interactions

Francis Martin is the Head of the Ecogenomics of Interactions Laboratory at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). Sophien Kamoun is Senior Scientist and Head of the Sainsbury Laboratory and Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.

Contributors Foreward Preface Section 1 Plant Immune Response Pathways 1 Innate Immunity: Pattern Recognition in Plants Delphine Chinchilla and Thomas Boller 2 Microbial Effectors and Their Role in Plant Defense Suppression Dagmar Hann and Thomas Boller Section 2 Genome-Wide Analyses of Microbial Effectors and Effector Evolution 3 Comparative Genomics and Evolution of Bacterial Type III Effectors Ralf Koebnik and Magdalen Lindeberg 4 The Effectors of Smut Fungi Gunther Doehlemann, Kerstin Schipper, and Regine Kahmann 5 Evolutionary and Functional Dynamics of Oomycete Effector Genes Mireille van Damme, Liliana M. Cano, Ricardo Oliva, Sebastian Schornack, Maria Eugenia Segretin, Sophien Kamoun, and Sylvain Raffaele Section 3 Microbial Effector Functions: Virulence and Avirulence 6 Suppression and Activation of the Plant Immune System by Pseudomonas syringae Effectors AvrPto and AvrPtoB Gregory Martin 7 Rust Effectors Sebastien Duplessis, David L. Joly, and Peter N. Dodds 8 Dothideomycete Effectors Facilitating Biotrophic and Necrotrophic Lifestyles Thierry Rouxel and Pierre J.G.M. de Wit Section 4 Effector Trafficking: Processing/Uptake by Plants and Secretion/Delivery by Microbes 9 Effector Translocation and Delivery by the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Thomas Mentlak, Nicholas J. Talbot, and Thomas Kroj 10 Entry of Oomycete and Fungal Effectors into Host Cells Brett M. Tyler Section 5 Emerging Effectors-Symbionts, Nematodes, Insects, Metabolites 11 Roles of Effector Proteins in the Legume-Rhizobia Symbiosis Silvia Ardissone and William James Deakin 12 Mutualistic Effectors: Architects of Symbiosis Jonathan M. Plett and Francis Martin 13 Nematode Effector Proteins: Targets and Functions in Plant Parasitism Marie-Noelle Rosso, Richard S. Hussey, Eric L. Davis, Geert Smant, Thomas J. Baum, Pierre Abad, and Melissa G. Mitchum 14 Effectors in Plant-Insect Interactions Jorunn I.B. Bos and Saskia A. Hogenhout 15 Fungal Secondary Metabolites: Ancient Toxins and Novel Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions Jerome Collemare and Marc-Henri Lebrun Index