Bacterial Disease Resistance in Plants: Molecular Biology and Biotechnological Applications

Introducing recent developments in the study of biotechnology and resistance to biotic stresses, Vidhyasekaran (former director, Center for Plant Protection Studies, Tamil Nadu U., India) introduces readers to the practice of breeding plants for resistance to bacteriological disease using recombinant DNA technologies and other methods. Chapters cover molecular recognition processes between plant and bacterial pathogens, host defense mechanisms, active oxygen species, inducible plant proteins, inducible secondary metabolites, and molecular manipulation of bacterial disease resistance. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR