Table of Contents:

Signal Transduction

• Olfaction in plants: Specific perception of common microbial molecules
  Thomas Boller and Georg Felix
• Signal recognition and transduction in bacterial speck disease resistance of tomato
  Gregory Martin, Xiaoyan Tang, Jianmin Zhou, Reid Frederick, Yulin Jia, and Ying-Tsu Loh
• A comparison of methods for the determination of the oxidative burst in whole plants.
  Ann T. Schroeder, Gregory Martin, and Philip S. Low
• Signal perception and intracellular signal transduction in plant pathogen defense
  Wolfgang Wirtz, Dirk Nennstiel, Thorsten Jabs, Sabine Zimmermann, Dierk Scheel, and Thorsten Nürnberger
• Systemic acquired resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana
  K. Summermatter, Th. Birchler, L. Sticher, B. Mauch-Mani, M. Schneider, and J.P.Métraux
• Studies of the salicyclic acid signal transduction pathway
  Daniel F. Klessig, Jörg Durner, Zhixiang Chen, Marc Anderson, Uwe Conrath, He Du, Ailan Guo, Yidong Liu, Jyoti Shah, Herman Silva, Hideki Takahashi, and Yinong Yang

Plant Resistance

• Genetic interactions between genes controlling cell death and pathogen recognition in Arabidopsis
  Jeffery L. Dangl, Robert A. Dietrich, J.-B. Morel, Douglas C. Boyes, Thorsten Jabs, John M. McDowell, Murray R. Grant, Susanne Kjemtrup, and Scott Kaufman
• Arabidopsis thaliana enhanced disease susceptibility (eds) mutants.
  Elizabeth E. Rogers, Jane Glazebrook, Sigrid Volko, and Frederick M. Ausubel
• Molecular, genetic and physiological analysis of Cladosporium resistance gene function in tomato
  David A. Jones, Penny Brading, Mark Dixon, Kim Hammond-Kosack, Kate Harrison, Kostas Hatzixanthis, Martin Parniske, Pedro Piedras, Miguel Torres, Saijun Tang, Colwyn Thomas, and Jonathan D.G. Jones
• The N gene of tabacco confers resistance to tobacco mosaic virus in transgenic tomato.
  Barbara Baker, Steve Whitham, and Sheila McCormick
• Genetic interactions specifying disease resistance in the bacterial speck disease of tomato
  Christian Tobias, John Salmeron, Giles Oldroyd, Caius Rommens, Steven Scofield, and Brian Staskawicz

Receptors?

• Signal perception and transduction in the activation of plant defense by ß-glucan elicitors.
  Luis Antelo, Andrea Daxberger, Judith Fliegmann, Axel Mithöfer, Christel Schopfer, and Jürgen Ebel
• Perception of oligochitin (N-acetylchitooligosaccharide) elicitor signal in rice.
  Naoto Shibuya, Yuki Ito, and Hanae Kaku
• NIP1, a bifunctional signal molecule from the barley pathogen, Rhynchosporium secalis.
  Marion Fiegen, Angela Gierlich, Hanno Hermann, Volkhart Li, Matthias Rohe, and Wolfgang Knogge
• The PGIP (polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein) family: Extracellular proteins specialized for recognition
  F. Cervone, G. De Lorenzo, B. Aracri, D. Bellincampi, C. Caprari, A. Devoto, F. Leckie, B. Mattei, L. Nuss, and G. Salvi
• Biochemical characterization of nod factor binding sites in Medicago roots and cell suspension cultures.
  J.-J. Bono, F. Gressent, A. Niebel, J.V. Cullimore, and R. Ranjeva
• Do legume vegetative tissue lectins play roles in plant-microbial interactions?
  Marilynn E. Etzler and Judith B. Murphy

Agrobacterium

• Agrobacterium: A natural genetic engineer exploited for plant biotechnology
  Eugene W. Nester, John Kemner, Wanyin Deng, Yong-Woog Lee, Karla Fullner, Xiaoyou Liang, Shen Pan, and Joe Don Heath
• Biogenesis of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-complex transport apparatus
  D. Fernandez, G.M. Spudich, T.A. Dang, X.-R. Zhou, S. Rashkova, and P.J. Christie
• Agrobacterium and plant genes affecting T-DNA transfer and integration.
  Soma Narasimhulu, Jaesung Nam, Xiao-bing Deng, and Stanton Gelvin
• The roles of the virulence proteins D2 and E2 in nuclear targeting, protection and integration of T-DNA
  Barbara Hohn, BrunoTinland, Ana María Bravo Angel, Fabrice Schoumacher, Jesús Escudero, and Luca Rossi
• Transfer and integration of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.
  Paul Bundock, Amke den Dulk-Ras, Alice Beijersbergen, Eddy Risseeuw, and Paul J.J. Hooykaas

Bacterial Determinants for Pathogenicity and Avirulence

• Bacterial determinants of pathogenicity and avirulence-An overview
  Noel T. Keen
• Pseudomonas syringae hrp genes: Regulation and role in avirulence phenotypes
  Steven W. Hutcheson, Songmu Jin, Michael C. Lidell, and Zhisheng Fu
• vSecreted proteins, secretion pathways, and the plant pathogenicity of Erwinia chrysanthemi and Pseudomonas syringae
  Alan Collmer, James R. Alfano, David W. Bauer, Gail M. Preston, Amy O. Loniello, Alison Conlin, Jong Hyung Ham, Hsiou-Chen Huang, Suresh Gopalan, and Sheng Yang He
• Genetic and molecular dissection of the hrp regulon of Ralstonia (Pseudomonas) solanacearum
  M. Marenda, F. Van Gijsegem, M. Arlat, C. Zischek, P. Barberis, J.C. Camus, P. Castello, and C.A. Boucher
• Homoserine lactone-mediated microbial signaling: a communication system common to plant-associated bacteria.
  Stephen K. Farrand, Kevin R. Piper, Rebecca Sackett, Gao Ping, Paul D. Shaw, and Kun-Soo Kim
• Molecular analysis of protein secretion systems involved in Erwinia carotovora virulence.
  J. Thomas, S. Wharam, L. Vincent-Sealey, S. Harris, Y.-L. Shih, and G.P.C. Salmond
• Regulation of hrpNEcc and genes for other exoproteins in soft-rotting Erwinia carotovora by RsmA, a putative RNA-binding protein.
  Asita Mukherjee, Yaya Cui and Arun K. Chatterjee
• Genes and proteins involved in aggressiveness and avirulence of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae to rice.
  J.E. Leach, W. Zhu, J.M. Chittoor, G. Ponciano, S.A. Young, and F.F. White
• Role of nuclear localizing signal sequences in three disease phenotypes determined by the Xanthomonas avr/pth gene family.
  D.W. Gabriel, Q. Yuan, Y. Yang, and P.K. Chakrabarty
• Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria hrp gene regulation and avirulence gene avrBs3 recognition
  U. Bonas, E. Huguet, L. Noël, M. Pierre, O. Rossier, K. Wengelnik, and G. Van den Ackerveken
• Some novel factors required for pathogenicity of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris
  C.E. Barber, T.J.G.Wilson, H. Slater, J.M. Dow, and M.J. Daniels
• Coronatine, a plasmid-encoded virulence factor produced by Pseudomonas syringae
  C. Bender, D. Palmer, A. Peñaloza-Vázquez, V. Rangaswamy, and M. Ullrich

Genetics of Fungal Pathogenicity

• Molecular genetic approaches to the study of fungal pathogenesis revisited
  Sally A. Leong
• The molecular basis of compatibility: Lessons from the host-selective toxin of Cochliobolus carbonum
  Virginia Crane, Nasser Yalpani, and Steve Briggs
• Review of evidence linking hypovirus-mediated disruption of cellular G-protein signal transduction and attenuation of fungal virulence
  Baoshan Chen, Shaojian Gao, Lynn M. Geletka, Shin Kasahara, Ping Wang, and Donald L. Nuss
• Saponins and plant disease
  Jos P. Wubben, Rachel E. Melton, Michael J. Daniels, and Anne E. Osbourn
• Control of mating, filamentous growth and pathogenicity in Ustilago maydis
  Regine Kahmann, Tina Romeis, H. Andreas Hartmann, Heidi U. Böhnert, Michael Bölker, and Jörg Kämper
• Genomic organization of the TOX2 locus of Cochliobolus carbonum
  Jonathan D.Walton, Joon-Hoon Ahn, John W. Pitkin, andAnastasia N. Nikolskaya
• Structure-function relation studies on AVR9 and AVR4 elicitors of Cladosporium fulvum
  P.J.G.M. De Wit, M. Kooman-Gersmann, R. Vogelsang, M.H.A.J. Joosten, J.P.M.J. Vossen, R.L. Weide, R. Laugé, G. Honée, and J.J.M. Vervoort

Virology

• Cellular and molecular mechanisms of coat protein and movement protein mediated resistance against TMV
  Roger N. Beachy, Hal S. Padgett, Ted Kahn, Mohammed Bendahmane, John H. Fitchen, Manfred Heinlein, Yuichiro Watanabe, and Bernard L. Epel
• Role of plasmodesmata and host factors in control of viral infection
  William J. Lucas
• Elicitor functions of tobamovirus coat proteins in Nicotiana sylvestris
  Zenobia Taraporewala and James N. Culver
• Virus-host interactions in southern bean mosaic virus gene expression and assembly
  David L. Hacker and Kailayapilla Sivakumaran
• Interactive roles of viral proteins,viral RNA, and host factors in bromovirus RNA replication.
  P. Ahlquist, J.Díez, M. Ishikawa, M. Janda, A. Noueiry, B.D. Price, M. Restrepo-Hartwig, and M. Sullivan
• Geminivirus replication
  Linda Hanley-Bowdoin, Patricia A. Eagle, Beverly M. Orozco, Dominique Robertson, and Sharon B. Settlage
• Involvement of rice dwarf virus S6 in symptom severity and insect transmission.
  Ichiro Uyeda, Yuko Ando, Yoko Tanji, Hiroki Atarashi, and Ikuo Kimura

Plant-Microbe Symbioses

• The molecular basis of host specificity of rhizobia
  H.P. Spaink, J. Bakkers, M. Bladergroen, G.V. Bloemberg, I. Dandal, C.L. Diaz, L. Blok-Tip, A. Gisel, M. Harteveld, I.M. Lopez-Lara, D. Kafetzopoulos, E. Kamst, J.W. Kijne, D. Meijer, B.J.J. Lugtenberg, A.O. Ovtsyna, I. Potrykus, N.E.M. Quaedvlieg, C. Quinto, T. Ritsema, C. Sautter, H.R.M. Schlaman, J.E. Thomas-Oates, J.H. van Boom, K. Van der Drift, G.A. van der Marel, S.Van Leeuwen, A. Veldhuis, and A.H.M. Wijfjes
• nod gene regulation in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
  John Loh, Minviluz Garcia, Joyce Yuen and Gary Stacey
• Signal peptidases of Bradyrhizobium japonicum as new symbiosis- specific proteins.
  Peter Müller, Andrea Bairl, Anja Klaucke, Christian Sens, and Till Winzer
• Rhizobium species NGR234 host-specificity of nodulation locus III contains nod- and fix-genes
  S. Jabbouri, M. Hanin, R. Fellay, D. Quesada-Vincens, B. Reuhs, R.W. Carlson, X. Perret, C. Freiberg, A. Rosenthal, D. Leclerc, W.J. Broughton, and B. ReliD
• Exopolysaccharides and their role in nodule invasion
  Gregory M. York, Juan E. González, and Graham C. Walker
• Acidic capsular polysaccharides (K antigens) of Rhizobium
  Bradley L. Reuhs
• Rhizobium etli lipopolysaccharide alterations triggered by host exudate compounds.
  K. Dale Noel, Dominik M. Duelli, and Valerie J. Neumann
• Analysis of the secretion of symbiosis-related proteins by Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae
  C. Finnie, G. Dean, J.M. Sutton, S. Gehlani, and J.A. Downie
• Symbiotic suppression of the Medicago sativa defense system-The key of Rhizobium meliloti to enter the host plant?
  Karsten Niehaus, Ruth Baier, Anke Becker, and Alfred Pühler
• New tools for investigating nodule initiation and ontogeny: Spot inoculation and microtargeting of transgenic white clover roots shows auxin involvement and suggests a role for flavonoids
  U. Mathesius, H.R.M. Schlaman, D. Meijer, B.J.J. Lugtenberg, H.P. Spaink, J.J. Weinman, L.F. Roddam, C. Sautter, B.G. Rolfe, and M.A. Djordjevic
• Separation and characterization of Rhizobium and Trifolium proteinsusing proteome analysis to study global changes in gene expression
  M. Guerreiro, J.J. Weinman, S. Natera, A.C. Morris, J.W. Redmond, M.A. Djordjevic, and B.G. Rolfe
• Control of nodule organogenesis in Medicago
  M. Crespi, C. Charon, C. Johansson, F. Frugier, T. Coba, P. Bauer, A. Fehér, A. Lodeiro, S. Poirier, S. Brown, P. Ratet, C. Staehelin, T.H. Trinh, M. Schultze, E. Kondorosi, H.H. Felle, and A. Kondorosi
• Gene discovery in early plant nodulation responses and systemic regulation of nodulation
  Peter M. Gresshoff, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Roel P. Funke, Farshid Ghassemi, Jaime Padilla, Gabrielle Crüger, Sanjeev Pillai, Jiri Stiller, Ruju Chian, Anatoli Filatov, Raymond McDonnell, Sunil Tuppale, Qunyi Jiang, Lisa Calfee-Richardson, and Debbie Landau-Ellis
• Plant genes controlling the fate of bacteria inside the root
  I.A. Tikhonovich, A.Y. Borisov, V.K. Lebsky, E.V. Morzhina, and V.E. Tsyganov
• Transposon tagging in Lotus japonicus using the maize elements Ac and Ds
  Eloisa Pajuelo, Leif Schauser, Thomas Thykjaer, Knud Larsen, and Jens Stougaard
• Nicotiana tabacum SR1 contains two ENOD40 homologs.
  Martha Matvienko, Karin van de Sande, Katharina Pawlowski, Ab van Kammen, Henk Franssen, and Ton Bisseling
• Calcium-dependent phosphorylation of the nodulin 26 channel by a symbiosome membrane protein kinase
  Daniel M. Roberts, C. David Weaver, and Jung Weon Lee
• Sugar signals and legume lectins.
  Clara L. Diaz, Herman P. Spaink, and Jan W. Kijne
• Molecular communication in cyanobacterial-plant symbioses
  B. Bergman, A. Matveyev, U. Rasmussen, and A.Viterbo-Fainzilber
• Specific flavonoids stimulate intercellular colonization of non-legumes by Azorhizobium caulinodans
  Claire Gough, Gordon Webster, Jacques Vasse, Christine Galera, Caroline Batchelor, Kenneth O'Callaghan, Michael Davey, Shanker Kothari, Jean Dénarié, and Edward Cocking
• Actinorhizal nodules from different plant families
  K. Pawlowski, A.Ribeiro, C. Guan, A. van Kammen, A.M. Berry, and T. Bisseling
• In vitro expression of actinorhizal nodulin AgNOD-GHRP and demonstration of its toxicity to Escherichia coli
  Svetlana V. Dobritsa and Beth C. Mullin
• Emerging areas and future prospects in the field of plant-microbe interactions
  Andrzej B. Legocki

Biocontrol

• Molecular basis of rhizosphere colonization by Pseudomonas bacteria
  Ben Lugtenberg, Arjan van der Bij, Guido Bloemberg, Thomas Chin A. Woeng, Linda Dekkers, Lev Kravchenko, Ine Mulders, Claartje Phoelich, Marco Simons, Herman Spaink, Igor Tikhonovich, Letty de Weger, and Carel Wijffelman
• The biotechnology and application of Pseudomonas inoculants for the biocontrol of phytopathogens
  Colum Dunne, Isabel Delaney, Anne Fenton, Scott Lohrke, Yvan Moënne- Loccoz, and Fergal O'Gara
• Antifungal metabolites involved in biological control of soilborne plant diseases by rhizosphere pseudomonads
  Joyce E. Loper, Jennifer Kraus, Nathan Corbell, and Brian Nowak- Thompson
• Biocontrol: Genetic modifications for enhanced antifungal activity.
  James M. Ligon, Stephen T. Lam, Thomas D. Gaffney, D. Steven Hill, Phillip E. Hammer, and Nancy Torkewitz
• Phenazine antibiotic biosynthesis in the biological control bacterium Pseudomonas aureofaciens 30-84 is regulated at multiple levels
  L.S. Pierson III, D.W. Wood, and S.T. Chancey
• 2,4-Diacetylphloroglucinol, a key antibiotic in soilborne pathogen suppression by fluorescent Pseudomonas spp
  L.S. Thomashow, M.G. Bangera, R.F. Bonsall, D.-S. Kim, J. Raaijmakers, and D.M.Weller
• Zwittermicin A and biological control of oomycete pathogens.
  Elizabeth A. Stohl, Eric V. Stabb, and Jo Handelsman

Diversity and Ecology of Plant-Associated Microbes

• Plant regulation of bacterial root colonization
  D.A. Phillips, W.R. Streit, H. Volpin, J.D. Palumbo, C.M. Joseph, E.S. Sande, F.J. de Bruijn, and C.I. Kado
• Molecular genetic approaches to assessing bacterial habitat composition, modification, and interactions on leaves
  Steven E. Lindow
• Exploring the microbial diversity and soil management practices to optimize the contribution of soil microorganisms to plant nutrition
  Mariangella Hungria and Milton A.T. Vargas
• Rep-PCR genomic fingerprinting of plant-associated bacteria and computer-assisted phylogenetic analyses
  F.J. de Bruijn, J. Rademaker, M. Schneider, U. Rossbach, and F.J. Louws
• Comments on Rhizobium systematics: Lessons from R. tropici and R. etli
  E. Martinez-Romero

Emerging Areas of Research

• Root border cells
  Martha C. Hawes, L.A. Brigham, H.-H. Woo, Y. Zhu, and F. Wen
• Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae: Molecular approaches to investigate phosphate nutrition in the symbiosis
  Maria J. Harrison, Stephen H. Burleigh, Henry Liu, and Marianne L. van Buuren
• Root-knot nematode induced TobRB7 expression and antisense transgenic resistance strategies
  Charles H. Opperman and Mark A. Conkling
• Use of phytoremediation strategies to bioremediate contaminated soils and water
  Michael J. Sadowsky and Daniel R. Smith
• The possible links between RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM), sense and antisense RNA, gene silencing, symptom-induction upon microbial infections and RNA-directed DNA polymerase (RDRP)
  H.L. Sänger, W. Schiebel, L. Riedel, T. Pelissier, and M. Wassenegger
• Evolution of Epichloë species symbioses with grasses.
  Christopher L. Schardl, Huei-Fung Tsai, Kuang-Ren Chung, Adrian Leuchtmann, and Malcolm R. Siegel

International Symposium on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: Meeting Summary

• Meeting Summary
  R. James Cook

International Symposium on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: Satellite Meeting

• Emerging model legume systems: Tools and recent advances.
  Kathryn VandenBosch, Douglas Cook, Frans de Bruijn, and Thierry Huguet

International Symposium on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: Original Music

• One more control
  J. Kijne
• Lonesome ligand
  K. VandenBosch and J. Kijne
• Tears on a labcoat
  J. Kijne
• Coomassie blues
  C. Rosenberg, K. VandenBosch, and J. Kijne

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