Vidhyasekaran, P.

PAMP Signals in Plant Innate Immunity Signal Perception and Transduction / [electronic resource] : by P. Vidhyasekaran. - XVII, 442 p. 52 illus. online resource. - Signaling and Communication in Plants, 21 1867-9048 ; . - Signaling and Communication in Plants, 21 .

1. Introduction -- 2. PAMP signaling in Plant Innate Immunity -- 3. G-proteins as Molecular Switches in Signal Transduction -- 4. Calcium Ion Signaling System: Calcium Signatures and Sensors -- 5. Reactive Oxygen Species and Cognate Redox Signaling System in Plant Innate Immunity -- 6. Nitric oxide Signaling System in Plant Innate Immunity -- 7. Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Plant Innate Immunity -- 8. Phospholipids Signaling System in Plant Innate Immunity -- 9. Protein Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation in Plant Immune Signaling Systems -- 10. Ubiquitin-Proteasome System-mediated Protein Degradation in Defense Signaling.

Plant innate immunity is a potential surveillance system of plants and is the first line of defense against invading pathogens. The immune system is a sleeping system in unstressed healthy plants and is activated on perception of the pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMP; the pathogen’s signature) of invading pathogens. The PAMP alarm/danger signals are perceived by plant pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs). The plant immune system uses several second messengers to encode information generated by the PAMPs and deliver the information downstream of PRRs to proteins which decode/interpret signals and initiate defense gene expression. Activation of the ‘sleeping’ plant innate immune system by using different biotechnological tools would suppress the development of a wide range of plant pathogens in economically important crop plants. Enhancement of disease resistance through altered regulation of plant immunity signaling systems would be a durable and publicly acceptable technology in plant disease management. This book describes the most fascinating PAMP-PRR signaling complex and signal transduction systems. It also discusses the highly complex networks of signaling pathways involved in transmission of the signals to induce distinctly different defense-related genes to mount offence against different biotrophic, hemibiotrophic, and necrotrophic pathogens.

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10.1007/978-94-007-7426-1 doi


Life sciences.
Biotechnology.
Agriculture.
Microbiology.
Plant diseases.
Plant physiology.
Life Sciences.
Plant Pathology.
Plant Physiology.
Microbiology.
Biotechnology.
Agriculture.

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