| Introduction to Molecular Phytopathology | p. 1 |
| Overview on Parasitism | p. 3 |
| Types of host-parasite relationship | p. 3 |
| Features of parasites | p. 4 |
| Selected literature | p. 17 |
| Plant Parasite Microorganisms | p. 19 |
| Fungal plant pathogens | p. 19 |
| Bacterial plant pathogens | p. 25 |
| Plant viruses and viral plant diseases | p. 28 |
| Parasitic nematodes as plant pathogens | p. 39 |
| Selected literature | p. 47 |
| Structural Basis of Plant-Pathogen Interactions | p. 49 |
| Alterations of plant and pathogen structures during infection process | p. 49 |
| Structural features of the plant cell response to infections | p. 59 |
| Biotrophic infections | p. 59 |
| Necrotrophic infections | p. 64 |
| Conclusion | p. 71 |
| Selected literature | p. 72 |
| Advanced Methods of Plant Pathogen Diagnostics | p. 75 |
| Antigen-antibody interaction-based diagnostics | p. 76 |
| Diagnostics based on nucleic acid analysis | p. 95 |
| Conclusion | p. 109 |
| Using plant pathogen metabolites in diagnostics and research of plant-pathogen relationships | p. 110 |
| Selected literature | p. 116 |
| Phenomenology of Plant-Parasite Relations | p. 117 |
| Types of resistance | p. 117 |
| Genetics of resistance | p. 118 |
| Phenotypic manifestation of resistance | p. 122 |
| Relations with parasites | p. 127 |
| Selected literature | p. 135 |
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant-Parasite Relations | p. 137 |
| Horizontal Pathosystem: Parasite Attack Factors | p. 139 |
| Biosynthetic processes during fungal differentiation and penetration | p. 139 |
| Plant-nematode interrelationships | p. 147 |
| Suppression of plant defenses | p. 150 |
| Changes in metabolism of infected cells and tissues | p. 155 |
| Transport in the plant | p. 157 |
| Selected literature | p. 159 |
| Horizontal Pathosystem: Resistance Factors | p. 161 |
| Anatomical-morphological resistance factors | p. 161 |
| Regulation of ontogenesis and damage reparation | p. 162 |
| Nutrient value of infected organs and tissues | p. 163 |
| Biochemical resistance factors | p. 164 |
| Selected literature | p. 179 |
| Vertical Pathosystem: Avirulence Genes and Their Products | p. 181 |
| Molecular interpretation of genetic data | p. 181 |
| Abiogenic elicitors | p. 187 |
| Nonspecific biogenic elicitors | p. 187 |
| Endogenous plant or secondary elicitors | p. 193 |
| Avirulence genes and specific elicitors | p. 200 |
| Selected literature | p. 215 |
| Vertical Pathosystem: Resistance Genes and Their Products. Signal Transduction | p. 217 |
| Resistance genes and susceptibility genes | p. 217 |
| Signal transduction | p. 227 |
| Conclusion | p. 243 |
| Selected literature | p. 245 |
| Hypersensitivity | p. 247 |
| Morphological alterations in cells during apoptosis and necrosis | p. 248 |
| Genes involved in plant cell death - paranoid mutants | p. 251 |
| Signalling | p. 260 |
| Conclusion | p. 252 |
| Selected literature | p. 262 |
| Immune Response | p. 265 |
| Phytoalexins | p. 265 |
| PR-proteins | p. 273 |
| Antiviral proteins | p. 276 |
| Inhibitor of viral replication | p. 277 |
| Proteinase inhibitors | p. 279 |
| Phenylpropanoids and lignin | p. 283 |
| Oxyproline-rich glycoproteins | p. 287 |
| Modification of plant gene expression at nematode invasion | p. 290 |
| Systemic acquired resistance | p. 298 |
| Selected literature | p. 314 |
| RNA Silencing as a General Defence Mechanism against Pathogens | p. 315 |
| Introduction | p. 315 |
| Coexistence and discovery of RNA silencing | p. 315 |
| Key characteristics and triggers of RNA silencing | p. 316 |
| Why RNA silencing mechanism exists? | p. 320 |
| Suppression of RNA silencing by plant virus-encoded proteins | p. 320 |
| RNA silencing in plant breeding | p. 321 |
| Techniques used to analyze viral suppressor activity | p. 323 |
| Selected literature | p. 325 |
| Virulence Genes and Their Products | p. 327 |
| Suppressors (impedins) | p. 328 |
| Pathotoxins | p. 332 |
| Enzymes degrading antimicrobial plant compounds | p. 343 |
| Selected literature | p. 348 |
| General and Specific Aspects of Plant and Animal Immunity | p. 351 |
| Immunomodulators of pathogenic microorganisms | p. 353 |
| Host immune molecules | p. 357 |
| Signal transduction and immune response | p. 359 |
| Conclusion | p. 362 |
| Selected literature | p. 364 |
| Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interactions | p. 365 |
| Nitrogen-fixing symbioses | p. 365 |
| Mycorrhizae | p. 398 |
| Defensive symbioses | p. 409 |
| Ecological and agricultural impacts of beneficial plant-microbe interactions | p. 413 |
| Selected literature | p. 419 |
| Practical Use of Molecular Studies | p. 421 |
| Molecular Basis of Plant Immunization | p. 423 |
| Vaccination | p. 423 |
| Immunization | p. 426 |
| Selected literature | p. 437 |
| Creation of Disease-resistant Plants by Gene Engineering | p. 439 |
| Methods of transgenic plant creation | p. 440 |
| Development of transgenic plants resistant to viral disease | p. 446 |
| Resistance of transgenic plants induced by expression of antiviral antibodies | p. 450 |
| Development of transgenic plants resistant to fungal diseases | p. 452 |
| Enhancement of plant resistance to bacterial diseases by genetic engineering | p. 458 |
| Possible limitations of commercial use of bioengineering methods in creation of plants resistant against bacterial diseases | p. 464 |
| Selected literature | p. 465 |
| Conclusion | p. 467 |
| Index | p. 471 |
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