Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants

1 Introduction to belowground defense strategies in plants.- PART I General principles of belowground defense strategies.- 2 Belowground defense strategies in plants: Parallels between root responses to beneficial and pathogenic micro-organism.- 3 Root exudates as an integral part of belowground plant defense.- PART II Belowground defense strategies to root pathogens.- 4 Belowground defense strategies against Fusarium oxysporum.- 5 Belowground defense strategies against Rhizoctonia.- 6 Belowground defense strategies against Verticillium.- 7 Belowground and aboveground strategies of plant resistance against Phytophthora species.- 8 Belowground signaling and defense in host-Pythium interactions.- 9 Belowground defense strategies against clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae).- 10 Belowground defense strategies against sedentary nematodes.- 11 Belowground defense strategies against migratory nematodes.- PART III Root responses to beneficial micro-organisms.- 12 Root interactions with non-pathogenic Fusarium.- 13 Belowground defense strategies in plants: the plant-Trichoderma dialogue.- 14 Defense reactions in roots elicited by endofungal bacteria of the Sebacinalean symbiosis.- 15 Mitigating abiotic stresses in crop plants by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.