About the Book
Based on a similarly named meeting in December 1999 organised by the British Society for Plant Pathology, this book considers the biology of interactions between host plants and the pathogens that infect them. This important topic has seen some significant advances in the past ten years, especially through the application of molecular techniques, which are extensively covered in this book.
Table of Contents:
1: Biotic interactions and plant disease 2: Functional consequences and maintenance of vegetative incompatibility in fungal populations,R F Hoekstra, Laboratory of genetics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 3: Fungal endophytes and nematodes of agricultural and amenity grasses, R Cook, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, Wales and G C Lewis, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Okehampton, Devon, UK 4: Feeding on plant-pathogenic fungi by invertebrates: a comparison to saprotropic and mycorrhizal systems, T P McGonicle and M Hyakumachi, Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University Japan 5: Plant interactions with endophytic bacteria, J Hallmann, Institut for Plant Diseases, University of Bonn, Germany 6: Are chitinolytic rhizospere bacteria really beneficial to plants?, W.de Boer and J A van Veen, Netherlands Institute of Ecology 7: Cross-protection: Interactions between strains exploited to control plant virus diseases, H Lecoq, INRA, Domaine Saint Maurice, France and B Raccah, ARO, The Volcani Center, Israel 8: Plant-pathogen-herbivore interactions and their effects on weeds, P E Hatcher, Department of Botany, University of Reading, UK and N D Paul, Division of Biology, Lancaster University, UK 9: The role of hyperparasites in the host plant-parasitic fungus relationship, L Kiss, Plant Protection Institute, Budapest, Hungary 10: Mutualism and antagonism: ecological interactions among bark beetles, mites and fungi, K D Klepzig, et al. USDA Forest Service, Louisiana, USA 11: The implications for plant health of nematode-fungal interactions in the root zone, R J Hillocks, NRI University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent, UK 12: The interactions of plants, soil pathogens, and their antagonists in natural ecosystems, W H Van der Putten, Netherlands Institute of Ecology 13: Observation and theory of whitefly-borne virus epidemics, J Holt and J Colvin, Natural Resources Institute, Chatham Maritime, Kent, UK
