Developmental Genetics of Plant-Microbe Symbioses

Using several genetically developed models (N2-fixing legume nodules, arbuscular mycorrhizae, rhizospheric associations), this new book demonstrates that, in order to meet the diverse environmental challenges, land plants use a variety of nutritional and defensive symbioses with bacteria and fungi. These symbioses involve the co-operative partners' developmental programs resulted in establishing the convenient niches for microbes on the plant surfaces (in rhizosphere and rhizoplane), in tissues (inter-cellular spaces, tissue cavities) and sometimes inside the cells (symbiosomes) wherein the microbial co-habitants are hosted, managed using the multiple signalling circuits and provided with the optimal conditions for expressing their host-beneficial traits (nutrition, protection from pasts and competitors).

ISBN 1616682906   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781616682903 (What's this?)   Pages 151 Publisher Nova Science Publishers Inc   Published in New York Imprint Nova Science Publishers Inc   Height (mm) 230 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 155 Publication date 19 Aug 2010   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 579.178

		Preface
		Key Words and Abbreviations		1
		Introduction		3
Chapter 1		Legume-Rhizobia Root Nodule Symbiosis (RNS)		7
Chapter 2		Arbuscular Mycorrhiza (AM)		31
Chapter 3		Molecular Genetics of RNS and AM		63
Chapter 4		Associations with Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR)		77
Chapter 5		Conclusion and Prospects		85
		Acknowledgements		95
		References		97
		Index		139

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