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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298302203321

Autore

Vidhyasekaran P

Titolo

PAMP signals in plant innate immunity : signal perception and transduction / / P. Vidhyasekaran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht, Netherlands : , : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

94-007-7426-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 442 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Signaling and Communication in Plants, , 1867-9048 ; ; 21

Disciplina

457

Soggetti

Plant cellular signal transduction

Plants - Disease and pest resistance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN: 1867-9048."

"ISSN: 1867-9056 (electronic)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.