Overview
- Offers an up-to-date insight into the latest results of the genetics and genomics of plant-associated bacteria
- Describes both theoretical and practical aspects of fighting against crop loss
- Of particular interest for scientists in industry, academia and government
- First book that describes the genomes of several distinct groups of plant-associated bacteria and shows the tremendous progress made over the last decade
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This book describes how genomics has revolutionized our scientific understanding of agriculturally important plant-associated bacteria. Each chapter focuses on the genomics of particular bacteria: the first described plant pathogen, Erwinia amylovora; phytoplasmas lacking cell walls; fastidious, phloem-restricted liberibacters; Pseudomonas syringae, which is a genetically tractable model system; Xanthomonas citri, which causes a disease that can devastate citrus crops and Pseudomonas fluorescens, which can protect plants from diseases.
Topics considered in this volume include the importance of horizontal gene transfer in originating new bacterial strains and species and advances in transcriptomics that allow us to describe the complex regulatory networks critical to plant-microbe interactions. The availability of the Xanthomonas oryzae genome has led to new technologies in genome editing, which will revolutionize approaches to genetic engineering, even in eukaryotes. The contributions show how genomics has greatly accelerated progress toward understanding the biology of these bacteria and how that understanding can be translated into novel crop protection methods.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genomics of Plant-Associated Bacteria
Editors: Dennis C. Gross, Ann Lichens-Park, Chittaranjan Kole
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55378-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (outside the USA) 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-55377-6Published: 03 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51093-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55378-3Published: 16 June 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 278
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture, Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology