Perspectives in Plant Cell Recognition

Perspectives in Plant Cell Recognition presents a review of recent advances in understanding the cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms governing cell-cell interactions in plants. In the case of the interaction between different cells of the same plant, most progress has been made in the study of gametes and associated organs during sexual reproduction and the volume begins with several contributions on this topic. Exciting progress in the study of associations between somatic cells crucial to coordinated tissue development is also reported. Interactions between plant cells and cells of other organisms are then represented by consideration of plant pathogenesis and examples of mutualistic symbiosis; the study of both of these areas has yielded significant information about this category of interaction. In particular, the Rhizobium/legume symbiosis has been studied extensively and the genes controlling the specificity of the interaction and involved in creating a harmonious mutualism have been cloned and their products identified. This volume will be of value to advanced undergraduates and research students seeking a broad introduction to plant recognition systems, and to research workers in the area of cell recognition looking for information on systems with which they may not be familiar.

Spis treści:
List of contributors
Preface
1. Sexual signalling in Chlamydomonas
2. Gamete recognition and fertilisation in the fucoid algae
3. The fungal surface and its role in sexual interactions
4. Gamete recognition in angiosperms, model and strategy for analysis
5. The molecular biology of self-incompatible responses
6. Cell surface arabinogalactan proteins, arabinogalactans and plant development
7. Local and systemic signalling during a plant defence response
8. Contact sensing during infection by fungal pathogens
9. The electrophysiology of root–zoospore interactions
10. Molecular differentiation and development of the host–parasite interface in powdery mildew of pea
11. Recognition signals and initiation of host responses controlling basic incompatibility between fungi and plants
12. Cell surface interactions in endomycorrhizal symbiosis
13. Host recognition in the Rhizobium leguminosarum-pea symbiosis
14. The Rhizobium trap, root hair curling in the root nodule symbiosis
15. Structure and function of Rhizobium lipopolysaccharide in relation to legume nodule development
Index.