Botrytis – the Fungus, the Pathogen and its Management in Agricultural Systems (eBook)

This book is the product of intensive work by 41 authors, all of whom are leading scientists from various scientific disciplines studying Botrytis as a fungus and as a pathogen. The authors of this book have amassed state-of-the art knowledge on diverse topics, including Botrytis epidemiology, disease management, biological and chemical control and aspects of the plant-pathogen interactome, including virulence factors and defence processes, signalling cascades, the oxidative burst and general biological aspects, such as vegetative incompatibility, mycoviruses, and the revised Botrytis species concept. This book also provides reviews of the genetic and post-genomic analyses, such as transcriptomics and proteomics, used to study Botrytis biology and pathogenicity.

1 - Botrytis, the good, the bad & the ugly Yigal Elad, Melané Vivier, and Sabine Fillinger2 - Botrytis-biology, detection and quantificationFrances M. Dewey (Molly), and Robert Grant-Downton3 - Genetics of Botrytis cinereaRita Milvia De Miccolis Angelini, Stefania Pollastro, and Franco Faretra4 - Vegetative incompatibility in BotrytisNadia Korolev and Yigal Elad5 - RNA Mycoviruses and Their Role in Botrytis BiologyMingde Wu, Jing Zhang, Long Yang, and Guoqing Li6 - Diversity within and between species of BotrytisAnne-Sophie Walker7 - Epidemiology and aerobiology of Botrytis spp. Odile Carisse 8 - Cultural and integrated control of Botrytis spp. Yigal Elad 9 - Biological control and biopesticide suppression of Botrytis-incited diseasesPhilippe C. Nicot, Alison Stewart, Marc Bardin, and Yigal Elad 10 – Chemical control and resistance management of Botrytis diseasesSabine Fillinger and Anne-Sophie Walker 11 - Control strategies for postharvest grey mould on fruit cropsGianfranco Romanazzi and Samir Droby 12 - Infection process and fungal virulence factors Celedonio González, Nélida Brito, and Amir Sharon 13- Signal transduction cascades regulating differentiation and virulence in Botrytis cinereaJulia Schumacher 14 - Reactive oxygen species in the Botrytis – host interactionUlrike Siegmund and Anne Viefhues 15 - Secondary metabolism in Botrytis cinerea: Combining genomic and metabolomic approaches Isidro G. Collado and Muriel Viaud 16 - Contribution of proteomics research to understanding Botrytis biology and pathogenicity  Francisco Javier Fernández-Acero, Eva Liñeiro, and Jesús Manuel Cantoral 17 - Overview of plant defence systems: lessons from Arabidopsis-Botrytis cinerea systems biology Oliver Windram, Claire Stoker, and Katherine Denby 18 - Hitting the wall: Plant cell walls during Botrytis cinerea infectionsBarbara Blanco-Ulate, John M. Labavitch, Estefania Vincenti, Ann L.T. Powell, and Dario Cantu19 - Ripening of tomato fruit and susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea Barbara Blanco-Ulate, Estefania Vincenti, Dario Cantu, and Ann L.T. Powell 20 - Plant hosts of Botrytis spp. Yigal Elad, Ilaria Pertot, Alba Marina Cotes Prado, and Alison Stewart