Plant Immunity Methods and Protocols
A great deal of effort is being invested in understanding the molecular mechanisms through which plants interact with pathogenic microbes. In Plant Immunity: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers in the field describe emerging technologies
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Plant Immunity Methods and Protocols Edited by
John M. McDowell Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Editor John M. McDowell, Ph.D. Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science Virginia Tech Latham Hall (0390) 550 Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA [email protected]
ISSN 1064-3745 e-ISSN 1940-6029 ISBN 978-1-61737-997-0 e-ISBN 978-1-61737-998-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-61737-998-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2011921723 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface Examples of How New Experimental Technologies Have Enabled Landmark Advances in Understanding of Plant Immunity Over the Last Half-Century This volume of Methods in Molecular Biology was designed to emphasize emerging technologies that can be applied to outstanding questions in plant immunity. The content is complementary to another recent, excellent volume in the series with a similar focus (1). Below, I provide a brief historical overview highlighting major conceptual advances in molecular plant–microbe interactions that would not have been possible without exploitation of new technologies. Additionally, I outline current conceptual challenges in our field that can be addressed with methods described in this volume. Finally, I speculate on technological advances in the near term that enable deeper understanding of plant immunity and support rational strategies for durable disease control. As all readers of this volume know, much effort has been invested in understanding the molecular mechanisms through which plants and microbes interact. Much of the progress in this field has been fueled by timely, thoughtful exploitation of new methodologies. For example, H.H. Flor’s use of classical genetics clearly demonstrated that the outcome of encounters between flax and flax rust can be dictated by single genes on both sides of the interaction (2). Equally important, his methodology revealed striking specificity in these interac
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