Tabla de Contenidos: “…Perception of pathogen signals to initiate active defense;-- Delivery of pathogen signals: historical approach;-- Adhesion of fungal spores and effects on plant cells;-- Bacterial Avr proteins: secreted agents of parasitism and elicitors of plant defense;-- Rice receptors for chitin and glucan elicitors;-- Understanding pectate lyase C at the atomic level;-- A new type of host-selective toxin, a protein from Alternaria brassiciola;-- Chlorosis-inducing phytotoxins;-- Molecular genetics of host-specific toxin biosynthesis in Alternaria alternata;-- Victorin, apoptosis and the mitochondrion;-- Suppressors of defense;-- Signaling pathways for TMV;-- Genetic relationships specifying bacterial disease resistance in Xanthomonas;-- Signaling in rice disease resistance;-- Mi-1, a dual function disease resistance gene in tomato;-- Pathogen recognition and signal transduction mediated by the product of the Pto disease resistance gene;-- Regulation of nuclear gene expression in relations to signal molecules;-- Molecular interactions between the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta and its corresponding avirulence gene;-- The oxidative burst in plants;-- Perception of the syringolide elicitors by soybean cells;-- Citrus responses to a pathogenicity factor;-- Effectors of bacterial virulence and mediators of disease resistance responses;-- Apoptotic response in defense of oats to infections and elicitors;-- Trafficking of…”

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