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Genetics of Plant Pathogenic Fungi

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Progress in Botany

Part of the book series: Progress in Botany ((BOTANY,volume 59))

Abstract

Plant pathogenic fungi still represent a severe threat to the agricultural industry, especially since the chemical control of these organisms has become more complex. Due to environmental protection legislation, the costs for tests of new fungicides have been multiplied — whereas fungi rapidly develop resistance against the established chemicals. As a consequence, there is an increasing pressure on the development of alternative plant protection systems. On the pathogen side, “Achilles’ heels”, i.e. new targets for specific fungicides, have to be defined; this gives new input into intensive basic research on potential pathogenicity factors (and, of course, defence mechanisms on the plant side). On the other hand, results obtained in the last years in this area have shown that the study of host-pathogen interaction gives invaluable insights to general cell biological phenomena in both partners, including cell-cell interaction, signal perception and transduction, gene activation, etc.. Therefore, basic research in this field has been considerably intensified, as much in academics as in commercial laboratories.

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  1. Zellenlehre, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    H.-D. Behnke

  2. Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Botanik, Ruhr Universität, D-44780, Bochum, Germany

    K. Esser

  3. Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Universität Mainz, Saarstraße 21, D-55099, Mainz, Germany

    J. W. Kadereit

  4. Institut für Botanik, FB Biologie (10), TH Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstraße 3-5, D-64287, Darmstadt, Germany

    U. Lüttge

  5. Lehrstuhl für Geobotanik, Systematisch-Geobotanisches Institut der Universität, Untere Karsüle 2, D-37073, Götingen, Germany

    M. Runge

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Tudzynski, P., Tudzynski, B. (1998). Genetics of Plant Pathogenic Fungi. In: Behnke, HD., Esser, K., Kadereit, J.W., Lüttge, U., Runge, M. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80446-5_6

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