Introduction; Exclusion and Elimination of Microbial Plant Pathogens; Genetic Resistance of Crops to Diseases; Transgenic Resistance to Crop Diseases; Induction of Resistance to Crop Diseases; Molecular Biology of Biocontrol Activity Against Crop Diseases; Molecular Biology of Pathogen Resistance to Chemicals
Summary
Investigations on various aspects of plant-pathogen interactions have the ultimate aim of providing information that may be useful for the development of effective crop disease management systems. Molecular techniques have accelerated the formulation of short- and long-term strategies of disease management. Exclusion and eradication of plant pathogens by rapid and precise detection and identification of microbial pathogens in symptomatic and asymptomatic plants and planting materials by employing molecular methods has been practiced extensively by quarantines and certification programs with a
