The Phenotypic Expression of a Genotype: Bringing
Muddy Boots and Micropipettes Together
Roger Hull ................................................... 1
The Origin of Ceratocystis fagacearum, the Oak Wilt
Fungus
Jennifer Jozwik, Thomas J. Harrington, William
L. MacDonald, and David N.Appel ............................. 13
The Powdery Mildews: A Review of The World's Most
Familiar (Yet Poorly Known) Plant Pathogens
Dean A.Glaive ............................................... 27
Plants as a Habitat for Beneficial and/or Human
Pathogenic Bacteria
Heather L.L.Tyler and Eric W.Triplett ....................... 53
The Origins of Plant Pathogens in Agro-Ecosystems
Eva H.Stukenbrock and Bruce A.McDonald ...................... 75
Role of Stomata in Plant Innate Immunity and Foliar
Bacterial Diseases
Maeli Melotto, William Underwood, and Sheng-Yang He ........ 101
Models of Fungicide Resistance Dynamics
Frank van den Bosch and Christopher A.Gilligan ............. 123
Siderophores in Fungal Physiology and Virulence
Hubertus Haas, Martin Eisendle, and Gillian Turgeon ........ 149
Breaking the Barriers: Microbial Effector Molecules
Subvert Plant Immunity
Silke Robatzek and Vera Göhre .............................. 189
Yeast as a Model Host to Explore Plant Virus-Host
Interactions
Peter D.Nagy ............................................... 217
Living in Two Worlds: The Plant and Insect Lifestyles
of Xylella fastidiosa
Subhadeep Chatterjee, Rodrigo R.R. Almeida, and
Steven Lindow .............................................. 243
Identification and Rational Design of Novel
Antimicrobial Peptides for Plant Protection
Jose F.Marcos, Alberto Munoz, Enrique Perez-Payd,
Santosh Misra, and Belen Lopez-Garcia ...................... 273
Direct and Indirect Roles of Viral Suppressors of
RNA Silencing in Pathogenesis
Juan A.Diaz-Pendon and Shou- Wei Ding ...................... 303
Insect Vector Interactions with Persistently
Transmitted Viruses
Saskia A.Hogenhout, El-Desouky Ammar, Anna E.
Whitfield, and Margaret G.Redinbaugh ....................... 327
Plant Viruses as Biotemplates for Materials and Their
Use in Nanotechnology
Mark Young, Debbie Willits, Masaki Uchida, and
Trevor Douglas ............................................. 361
Epidemiological Models for Invasion and Persistence
of Pathogens
Christopher A.Gilligan and Frank van den Bosch ............. 385
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