Overview
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Rajeev K. Upadhyay
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Faridabad, India
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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- Hisashi Miyagawa, Masakazu Okada, Ippei Uemura, Bunta Watanabe, Tamio Ueno
Pages 1-21
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- Antonio Logrieco, Antonio Moretti, Alberto Ritieni, Maria F. Caiaffa, Luigi Macchia
Pages 23-30
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- S. Arase, M. Ueno, Y. Honda
Pages 31-37
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- Deidre A. Carter, Nai Tran-Dinh, Michael Stat, Swapna Kumar, Tien Bui, John I. Pitt
Pages 47-62
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- Ingrid Heiser, Julia Koehl, Erich F. Elstner
Pages 63-79
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- Giovanni Del Sorbo, Aniello Scala, Felice Scala, Stefania Tegli
Pages 93-103
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- Katsunori Tamura, Tohru Teraoka, Isamu Yamaguchi
Pages 141-150
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- Joanne G. Romagni, Franck E. Dayan
Pages 151-169
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- Kevin K. Schrader, Dale G. Nagle, David E. Wedge
Pages 171-195
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- P. Balasubramanian, R. Samiyappan, S. Babu, R. Nandakumar, V. Shanmugam, T. Raguchander
Pages 197-209
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- H. K. Abbas, S. O. Duke, W. T. Shier, M. V. Duke
Pages 211-229
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- R. Samiyappan, P. Balasubramanian, S. Babu, R. Nandakumar, V. Shanmugam, T. Raguchander et al.
Pages 231-258
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- P. Ananda Kumar, O. M. Bambawale
Pages 259-280
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Back Matter
Pages 281-288
About this book
Microbial toxins are secondary metabolites that accumulate in the organism and, to a large extent, are metabolically inactive towards the organism that produces them. The discovery of penicillin, a secondary metabolite of Penicillium notatum West (= P. chrysogenum Thom), in 1929 marked a milestone in the development of antibiotics (microbial toxins). In the intensive studies that followed this discovery, scientists chemically characterized several new molecules (toxins) from secondary metabolites of microbes, some having a definite function in causing pathogenesis in plants. Toxins are also known to playa significant role in inciting animal (human) and insect diseases and as plant growth regulators. Many common toxins have also been isolated from different microbes exhibiting a wide spectrum of biological activity. Toxins are broadly divisible into several characteristic groupings - polyketides, oxygen heterocyclic compounds, pyrons, terpenoidS, amino acids - diketopiperazines, polypeptides etc. Recent research has indicated that these toxins play an important role in plant pathogenesis, disease epidemics, plant breeding, biological control of plant pathogens and insect pests, induced resistance, plant-pathogen interactions etc. Toxins produced by weed pathogens are exploited as lead molecules in developing environmentally friendly herbicides.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faridabad, India
Rajeev K. Upadhyay