Table of Contents:

KEYNOTE LECTURE

• Mechanisms of Specific Disease Resistance: Current Understanding and Future Challenges

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN PLANT DEVELOPMENT AND PLANT DEFENCE

• Salicylic Acid- and Nitric Oxide-Mediated Signal in Plant Disease Resistance
  
  
• A Receptor-Like Kinase Complex Regulating Organ Formation

VIRULENCE AND AVIRULENCE OF BACTERIA AND FUNGI

• Hrp Type III Secretion-Mediated Signaling between Xanthomonas and the Plant
• Fungal (A)virulence and Host Resistance in the Cladosporium fulvum-Tomato Interaction
• Molecular Characterization of Resistance Gene/Avirulence Gene Interactions in the Rice Blast System
• The Pseudomonas syringae avr Rpt2 Gene Encodes a Protein that Functions inside Plant Cells to promote Pathogen Virulence

PLANT-RHIZOBIUM INTERACTIONS

• Integration of the Cell Cycle in the Nodule Developmental Program of Medicago
• Tagging of Genes controlling Root nodule Development in Lotus japonicus
• Two overlapping Pathways for Triggering nodule Development in White Clover
• Ribosomal Gene Based Phylogenies on Trial: The Case of Rhizobium and Related Genera

SECRETION AND TRANSPORT OF VIRULENCE AND AVIRULENCE FACTORS

• Hrp (type III) Protein Secretion and the Virulence of Pseudomonas syringae and Erwinia chrysanthemi
• Characterization of ABC Transporters from the Fungal Phytopathogen Leptosphaeria maculans
• Factors Secreted byRhizobium leguminosarum and Their Role in the Symbiosis with Legumes
• Type III Protein Secretion and Pathogenesis of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 in Arabidopsis

PLANT-NEMATODE INTERACTIONS

• The Nematode Resistance Gene, Mi
• Development of Nematode-Induced Feeding Cells in Arabidopsis Roots: How Important is the Cell Cycle?
• Feeding Cell Induction by Cyst Nematodes: the Role of Auxin and Mitogenic Nematode Secretions
• Upregulation of the RPE Gene in Early Steps of Giant Cell Formulation Induced by Root Knot Nematode

PERCEPTION OF MICROBIAL SIGNALS

• Oligosaccharide Elicitor Signaling: Perception and Transduction of Oligochitin/Oligoglucan Elicitor in Rice
• Nod Factor Signal Transduction in the Medicago truncatula Nod/Myc Mutants TR25/26
• Nod Signal Recognition
• Structure-Function Studies on the Leucine-Rich Repeat Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Protein (PGIP)

SIGNAL PERCEPTION AND TRANSDUCTION IN PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

• Receptor-Mediated Signal Transduction in Plant Defense
• Aspects of Signaling in the Plant Defense Response to Fungal Pathogens
• Ethylene and Legumes Root Nodule Formation

PLANT-AGROBACTERIUM INTERACTIONS

• Chromosomal Genes Involved in the Virulence of Agrobacterium
• Plant Genes Involved in Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation
• Trans-Kingdom DNA and Protein Transport from Agrobacterium tumefaciens to Plants, Yeasts and Fungi
• Nuclear Import and Integration of Agrobacterium T-DNA in vitro

PLANT-PATHOGENIC FUNGUS INTERACTIONS

• Preformed Antifungal Compounds and Plant Defence
  Fungal Virulence Factors: Some Things Are and Some Things Aren't
• Dissection of Nonhost resistance of Nicotiana to Phytophthora infestans
• Morphogenesis, Sporulation and Virulence in Ustilago maydis Are Controlled by cAMP Signaling

PLANT-VIRUS INTERACTIONS

• Genetics of Virus-Host Interaction Using the TEV System
• Interaction of Viral and Host Proteins in Plasmodesmata
• Mediated Transport of Plant Viruses

MYCORRHIZAE

• Genes Induce in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Formed between Medicago truncatula and Glomus versiforme
• Identifying Symbiosis-Regulated Genes in Eucalyptus globulus-Pisolithus tinctorius Extomycorrhiza Using Suppression
• Outside and Inside the Roots: AM Fungi Differently Interact with Epidermal and Cortical Cells of Their host Plants
  Mycorrhiza Mutants of Lotus japonicus

PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES; STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION I

• Molecular Characterization of the avrBs2 Gene of Pepper
  Mutational Analysis of the RPS5 Disease Resistance Gene Pathway
• Structure, Function and Evolution of Resistance Gene Clusters in Plants, Particularly the Pto and Dm3 Loci
• Early Events in AvrPto/Pto-Mediated Activation of Defense Responses

PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES; STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION II

• Molecular Genetics of CF- and RPP- Disease Resistance Gene Function
• Molecular Analysis of Rust Resistance in Flax
  Signaling in Rice Diseases Resistance

CELL BIOLOGY OF PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

• Role of the Cytoskeleton and the endoplasmic Reticulum in Intracellular Distribution of TMV Replication Sites and Movement Protein
• The Cell Biology of Interactions between Plant Cells and Biotrophic Fungal Parasites
• Nodulation Factors Trigger an Increase of Fine Bundles of Subapical Actin Filaments in Vicia Root Hairs: Implications for Root Hair Curling around Bacteria

LOCAL AND SYSTEMIC RESISTANCE

• Arabidopsis Defense-No Death Mutants: Loss of HR and Induction of Systemic Resistance
• Systemic Acquired Resistance Is Controlled by Both Positive and Negative Regulators
• Assessing the Contribution of Different Defence Programs in Arabidopsis to Different Disease Agents
• Rhizobacteria-Mediated Induced Systemic Resistance (ISR) in Arabidopsis: Involvement of Jasmonate and Ethylene

PLANT-BACTERIUM INTERACTIONS

• Molecular Dialogue between Ralstonia solanacearum and Plant Cells
• Genes for Virulence on a Pathogenicity Island in the Bean
• Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola: How Do They Work?
• Rhodococcus fascians and its interactions with plants
• Bacterial Resistance to Host Defence: Common Features between Animal and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

• The Chemical Biology of Plant Disease Suppression by Bacillus cereus
• Pseudomonas Genes and Traits Involved in Tomato Root Colonization
• 2,4-Diacetyphloroglucinol, a Major Determinant in the Biological Control of Take-All Disease of Wheat
• Development of a Transformation System for the Root-Knot Chlamydosporium

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS AND PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Genetic Strategies to Enhance the Biocontrol Activity of Pseudomonas
• Resistance to Mycotoxins: a Role for the ABC Transporter Proteins in Plant-Pathogen Interactions
• Hypersensitive Response and Disease Resistance upon Pathogen-Induced Expression of Elicitor Genes in Tobacco

UPCOMING MODEL SYSTEMS

• Parasitic Plant Responses to Host Plant Signals
  Actinorhizal Plants: Time for Genomics
• Systematic Genetic Molecular Analysis of Insect Resistance in Arabidopsis
• Chemically Mediated Tritrophic Plant-Insect Interactions

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY OF PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

• Communication between ustilago maydis and Its Host Plant Maize
• Engineering Hypoviruses to Fine-tune Fungal-Host Pathogenic Interactions
• Responses of the Host Plant to Rhizobial Nodulation Factors
  Promotion and Prevention of Infection of Thread Development

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH

• Disease after Death: Concept and Consequence
• Investigating the Mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death in Plants with a Toxin from a Necrotrophic Fungus
• Identification and Characterization of a Novel Arabidopsis Mutant svnl, Exhibiting Aberrant Regulation of Cell Death

FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

• Applying Functional Genomics to Crop Protection
• Two Paralogous Genes of the GPA2 Resistance Locus Confer Both virus and Nematode Resistance to Potato
• Ashbya gossypii as a model system for fungal functional genomics

CLOSING SESSION

Summary of the 9th IC-MPMI Congress
Author Index

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