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This authoritative book contains fifteen chapters whose breadth reflects the diversity of this research area. Topics covered range from: understanding the mechanisms of virus resistance in plants, and the management of whitefly-transmitted viruses, to the principles and methods involved in genetic engineering of virus resistant plants. Other chapters cover individual crops such as papaya, cassava, rice, tomato, and banana, for which virus resistance has been accomplished by employing different transgenic technologies. This volume is essential reading for everyone working in this field, both students and specialists, from academia, research institutes/organizations and industries.

Plants --- Plant immunology. --- Virus resistance.

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"Molecular Plant Immunity provides an integrated look at both well-established and emerging concepts in plant disease resistance providing the most current information on this important vitally important topic within plant biology. Understanding the molecular basis of the plant immune system has implications on the development of new varieties of sustainable crops, understanding the challenges plant life will face in changing environments, as well as providing a window into immune function that could have translational appeal to human medicine.Molecular Plant Immunity opens with chapters reviewing how the first line of plant immune response is activated followed by chapters looking at the molecular mechanisms that allow fungi, bacteria, and oomycetes to circumvent those defenses. Plant resistance proteins, which provide the second line of plant immune defense, are then covered followed by chapters on the role of hormones in immunity and the mechanisms that modulate specific interaction between plants and viruses. The final chapters look at model plant-pathogen systems to review interaction between plants and fungal, bacterial, and viral pathogens. Written by a leading team of international experts, Molecular Plant Immunity will provide a needed resource to diverse research community investigated plant immunity"--

Basic Sciences. Molecular Biology --- Plant immunology. --- Molecular immunology. --- Science --- Plant Molecular Biology. --- Life Sciences --- Biology --- General. --- Plant immunology --- Molecular immunology

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This book describes various bioengineering and molecular manipulation technologies employed to trigger defense responses and manage crop diseases. Plant innate immune system is a sleeping giant armed with an armory of deadly weapons (defense genes) to fight and destroy the invading viral, bacterial, oomycete, and fungal pathogens. When awakened by specific alarm signals, the plant immune system can activate transcription of hundreds of defense genes and confer resistance against wide range of pathogens, specifically against viral and bacterial pathogens against which effective chemical control is still not available. Chemical control of fungal and oomycete pathogens is widely practiced, but development of resistance to the modern fungicides in these pathogen populations restricts the use of these chemicals in management of these diseases. Breeding varieties with built in resistance is ideal but new races of pathogens appear frequently and the resistance often breaks down. Breeding for quantitative resistance is useful, but it is difficult to achieve. Transgenic plants developed by engineering disease resistance genes show resistance only against specific races of pathogens. Recent cutting edge studies on molecular biology of plant innate immunity have revealed the potential of the quiescent plant innate immunity for crop disease management, Enhancing disease resistance by switching on the plant immune system through modern genetic engineering and molecular manipulation technologies would be durable and publicly acceptable. .

Botany. --- Botany - General --- Botany --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Plant cellular signal transduction. --- Plant immunology. --- Bioengineering. --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biological engineering --- Life science engineering --- Immunology, Plant --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Cellular signal transduction --- Plant cellular control mechanisms --- Engineering --- Synthetic biology --- Immunology --- Disease and pest resistance --- Plant Sciences. --- Plant science. --- Floristic botany

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Insects, mites, and ticks have a long history of evolving resistance to pesticides, host-plant resistance, crop rotation, pathogens, and parasitoids. Insect resistance management (IRM) is the scientific approach to preventing or delaying pest evolution and its negative impacts on agriculture, public health, and veterinary issues. This book provides entomologists, pest management practitioners, developers of new technologies, and regulators with information about the many kinds of pest resistance including behavioral and phenological resistance. Abstract concepts and various case studies provi

Pests --- Plants --- Control. --- Disease and pest resistance. --- Disease resistance of plants --- Immunity (Plants) --- Pest resistance of plants --- Resistance of plants to disease --- Resistance of plants to pests --- Chemical control of pests --- Control of pests --- Eradication of pests --- Extermination of pests --- Pest control --- Pest eradication --- Pest extermination --- Pest management --- Immunity --- Pest resistance --- Chemical control --- Eradication --- Extermination --- Management --- Plant defenses --- Plant immunology --- Hardiness

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The third edition of Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction expands coverage by including three new chapters on African agriculture, genetic control of pests, and fitness costs of resistance. All remaining chapters have been updated to cover key scientific findings published since 2013. The coauthors have expertise in evolutionary biology, ecology, economics, epizootiology, statistics, modeling, IPM, and genetics. The original themes demonstrating the importance of economics, IPM, pest behavior, and the behavior of humans implementing insect resistance management (IRM) are still relevant. Entomologists and others developing experiments, models, regulations, or public policy will benefit from this book that avoids reliance on dogma by analyzing and synthesizing knowledge about a wide variety of species, landscapes, and stakeholder problems.

Pests --- Plants --- Control. --- Disease and pest resistance. --- Disease resistance of plants --- Immunity (Plants) --- Pest resistance of plants --- Resistance of plants to disease --- Resistance of plants to pests --- Plant defenses --- Plant immunology --- Chemical control of pests --- Control of pests --- Eradication of pests --- Extermination of pests --- Pest control --- Pest eradication --- Pest extermination --- Pest management --- Immunity --- Pest resistance --- Hardiness --- Chemical control --- Eradication --- Extermination --- Management