Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants

1. Introduction to Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants
Christine M. F. Vos, Kemal Kazan

Part I. General Principles of Belowground Defence Strategies

2. Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants: Parallels Between Root Responses to Beneficial and Detrimental Microbes
Ruth Le Fevre, Sebastian Schornack

3. Root Exudates as Integral Part of Belowground Plant Defence
Ulrike Baetz

Part II. Belowground Defence Strategies to Root Pathogens

4. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Fusarium oxysporum

Louise F. Thatcher, Brendan N. Kidd, Kemal Kazan

5. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Rhizoctonia

Brendan N. Kidd, Kathleen D. DeBoer, Karam B. Singh, Jonathan P. Anderson

6. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Verticillium Pathogens
Eva Häffner, Elke Diederichsen

7. Belowground and Aboveground Strategies of Plant Resistance Against Phytophthora Species
Daigo Takemoto, Yuri Mizuno

8. Belowground Signaling and Defence in Host–Pythium Interactions
Patricia A. Okubara, Jin-Ho Kang, Gregg A. Howe

9. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae)
Jutta Ludwig-Müller

10. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Sedentary Nematodes
Marta Barcala, Javier Cabrera, Carmen Fenoll, Carolina Escobar

11. Belowground Defence Strategies Against Migratory Nematodes
Michael G. K. Jones, Sadia Iqbal, John Fosu-Nyarko

Part III. Root Responses to Beneficial Micro-organisms

12. Root Interactions with Nonpathogenic Fusarium oxysporum

Christian Steinberg, Charline Lecomte, Claude Alabouvette, Véronique Edel-Hermann

13. Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants: The Plant–Trichoderma Dialogue
Ainhoa Martinez-Medina, Maria J. Pozo, Bruno P. A. Cammue, Christine M. F. Vos

14. Defence Reactions in Roots Elicited by Endofungal Bacteria of the Sebacinalean Symbiosis
Ibrahim Alabid, Karl-Heinz Kogel

15. Mitigating Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
Katia Plouznikoff, Stéphane Declerck, Maryline Calonne-Salmon

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