Natural Resistance Mechanisms of Plants to Viruses

Preface. Contributors. Part A. General Aspects. 1. Applied aspects of induced resistance to plant virus infection; J.F. Murphy . 2. Viral determinants of resistance versus susceptibility; J.E. Schoelz . 3. RNA silencing: a natural resistance mechanism in plants; E. Bucher, M. Prins . 4. Recognition and signal transduction associated with R gene-mediated resistance; J.J. Caplan, S.P. Dinesh-Kumar . 5. The local lesion response; G. Loebenstein, F. Akad . 6. Induced resistance mechanisms; A. Gilliland et al . 7. Host gene-mediated virus resistance mechanisms and signaling in Arabidopsis; P. Kachroo . 8. Viral counter-defense molecules; P. Palukaitis, S. MacFarlane . 9. Dark green islands; the phenomenon; C.J. Moore, R.M. MacDiarmid . 10. Resistance to infection; G. Bruening . 11. Reducing virus associated crop loss through resistance to insect vectors; M.A. Mutschler, W.M. Wintermantel . 12. Cross-protection; A. Gal-on, Y.M. Shiboleth. 13. Arrest in viral transport as basis for plant resistance to infection; S. Ueki, V. Citovsky . 14. Plant metabolism associated with resistance and susceptibility; M. Handford, J.P. Carr . Part B. Crop Related. 1. Resistance to viruses in potato; H. Barker, M.F.B. Dale . 2. Common beans; F.J. Morales . 3. Virus susceptibility and resistance in lettuce; T. Candresse et al . 4. Resistance to tobacco mosaic virus and tomato mosaic virus in tomato; A.J.P. Pfitzner . 5. Resistance to Turnip mosaic virus in the Brassicaceae; J.A. Walsh, C.E. Jenner . 6. Virus resistance in rice; D. Fargette et al . 7. Cassava; G. Thottappilly et al . 8. Natural resistance mechanisms to viruses in barley; M.C. Edwards et al . 9. Resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus in tomato; M. Lapidot, J.E. Polston .