P. Vidhyasekaran Livres

Focusing on plant innate immunity, this volume explores methods to enhance disease resistance in crops through signal manipulation and bioengineering. It details the development of transgenic plants that utilize immunity signaling genes and highlights recent advancements in biotechnological products aimed at improving crop disease management. This comprehensive guide serves as a valuable resource for understanding the intersection of plant biology and biotechnology in agriculture.

The book delves into the intricate workings of plant innate immune systems, highlighting their potential to combat various pathogens. It emphasizes the importance of rapid activation of immune responses, driven by specific plant hormone signaling pathways such as salicylate and jasmonate. The text explores how manipulating these signaling systems can influence disease resistance or susceptibility in plants. It also discusses two forms of induced resistance—systemic acquired resistance and induced systemic resistance—while examining strategies for managing crop diseases through hormone signaling manipulation.

Exploring the intricacies of plant innate immunity, this book delves into the activation of the immune system in response to pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). It highlights the role of pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) and the complex signaling pathways that transmit danger signals, leading to the expression of defense genes. The text provides a detailed examination of the PAMP-PRR signaling complex and the second messengers involved, showcasing how plants mount their first line of defense against pathogens.

This book presents the ways and means to switch on plant immune signaling systems using PAMP-PIMP-PRR signaling complex for crop disease management. It also describes bioengineering approaches to develop transgenic plants expressing enhanced disease resistance using genes encoding PAMPs, PRRs and transcription factors and genes involved in generation of PIMPs/HAMPs. It also discusses recent commercial development of PAMP products to switch on plant innate immunity for crop disease management. These unique approaches have been described with more than 100 figures and illustrations and these would make this book attractive for researchers and students to buy this book.