Phytoplasmas

by Weintraub, Phyllis G.; Jones, Phil

• ISBN13: 9781845935306
• ISBN10: 1845935306
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-31
• Publisher: Cab Intl

Summary

Phytoplasmas are the plant pathogenic bacteria that cause plant health problems around the world. Our knowledge about these important plant pathogens has advanced rapidly over the last decade as their impact on major agricultural and horticultural crops and ornamental plants has risen. This comprehensive volume by leaders in the field or phytoplasmology brings together current research on phytoplasmas, their plant hosts and insect vectors. The various approaches to differentiation, classifications and taxonomy are examined in detail, including genome sequencing and functional genomics. Discussions of the relationship between phytoplasmas and plants include the development of disease, biochemical changes in their plant hosts, plant resistance and epidemiology of disease. Finally, transmission by insect vectors, their control and the distribution and potential spread of phytoplasma diseases and vectors are considered. This book will be a valuable reference for researchers and upper-level students in crop protection, plant pathology and applied entomology.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Real-time PCR Diagnosis and Quantification of Phytoplasmas	p. 1
Phytoplasma Genomics, from Sequencing to Comparative and Functional Genomics - What Have We Learnt?	p. 19
Functional Genomics of Phytoplasmas	p. 37
Prospects of Multiple Gene-based Systems for Differentiation and Classification of Phytoplasmas	p. 51
Recent Advances in 16S rRNA Gene-based Phytoplasma Differentiation, Classification and Taxonomy	p. 64
Phytoplasma Phylogeny and Detection Based on Genes other than 16s rRNA	p. 93
Movement of Phytoplasmas and the Development of Disease in the Plant	p. 114
Biochemical Changes in Plants Infected by Phytoplasmas	p. 132
Plant Resistance	p. 147
Phytoplasma Diseases of the Gramineae	p. 170
Phytoplasma Epidemiology: Grapevines as a Model	p. 188
Phytoplasma Epidemiological Systems with Multiple Plant Hosts	p. 213
Control of Phytoplasma Diseases and Vectors	p. 233
Psyllid Vectors and their Control	p. 250
Microbial Symbionts of Auchenorrhyncha Transmitting Phytoplasmas: a Resource for Symbiotic Control of Phytoplasmoses	p. 272
Transmission Specificity and Competition of Multiple Phytoplasmas in the Insect Vector	p. 293
Current and Possible Future Distributions of Phytoplasma Diseases and their Vectors	p. 309
Index	p. 325
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