Microbial ecology of aerial plant surfaces /

• Corporate Author: International Symposium on the Microbiology of Aerial Plant Surfaces
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Leaves > Congresses. > Microbiology; Plant-microbe relationships > Congresses.; Microbial ecology > Congresses.; Plant surfaces > Congresses. > Microbiology; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Biological Control.; Biological Resources (General); Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Genetics and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Biodiversity.; Biofilms.; Biological control.; Colonization.; Dispersal.; Flowers.; Fruits.; Gene expression.; Genomics.; Habitats.; Leaves.; Microbial ecology.; Natural enemies.; Pathogenicity.; Phylloplane fungi.; Phyllosphere.; Plant disease control.; Plant diseases.; Plant pathogens.; Population genetics.; Spatial distribution.; Stems.; Surfaces.; Microbiology; Phyllosphere; Ariel plant surfaces; Electronic books.
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This book focuses on the ecology of the microbiology of the surfaces of above-ground, aerial portion of vascular plants (including stem, leaves, fruits and flowers), collectively known as the phylloplane. It is divided into 6 sections, highlighting both the value of this highly diverse habitat to re...

Table of Contents:

• Phyllosphere microbiology : a perspective / S. Lindow
• Microbial diversity in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of field grown crop plants : microbial specialisation at the plant surface / T.M. Timms-Wilson, K. Smalla, T.I. Goodall, A. Houlden, V. Gallego and M.J. Bailey
• Diversity, scale and variation of endophytic fungi in leaves of tropical plants / P. Bayman
• Microorganisms in the phyllosphere of temperate forest ecosystems in a changing environment / T. Müller, K. Strobel, and A. Ulrich
• Bacterial biofilm formation, adaptation and fitness / S. Rice and S. Kjelleberg
• Bacterial assemblages on plant surfaces / J.-M. Monier
• The role of plant genetics in determining above-and below-ground microbial communities / J.A. Schweitzer, J.K. Bailey, R.K. Bangert, S.C. Hart and T.G. Whitham
• A survey of A-L biofilm formation and cellulose expression amongst soil and plant-associated Pseudomonas isolates / A.J. Spiers, D.L. Arnold, C.D. Moon and T.M. Timms-Wilson
• Biological control of plant diseases by phyllosphere applied biological control agents / B.J. Jacobsen
• Ecophysiology of biocontrol agents for improved competence in the phyllosphere / N. Magan
• Compost teas : alternative approaches to the biological control of plant diseases / W.F. Mahaffee and S.J. Scheuerell
• Molecular interactions at the leaf surface : Xanthomonas and its host / M. Wilson, W. Moss, Y. Zhang and J. Jones
• Erwiniae : genomics and the secret life of a plant pathogen / I.K. Toth, L. Moleleki, L. Pritchard, H. Liu, S. Humphris, L. Hyman, G.W. Axelsen, M.B. Brurberg, M. Ravensdale, E. Gilroy and P.R.J. Birch
• Host-pathogen interactions of relevance to the phyllosphere / G.W. Sundin
• Effects of endophytes on colonisation by leaf surface microbiota / R.W.S. Weber and H. Anke
• Plant control of phyllosphere diversity : genotype interactions with ultraviolet-B radiation / A.E. Stapleton and S.J. Simmons
• Population growth and the landscape ecology of microbes on leaves / J.H. Andrews
• What DNA microarrays can tell us about bacterial diversity : a new light on an old question / G.L. Andersen, Y.M. Piceno, T.Z. DeSantis and E.L. Brodie
• Human pathogens and the health threat of the phyllosphere / M.T. Brandl
• Post-harvest spoilage of wheat grains : maldour formation and the infection process / P.T.N. Spencer-Phillips, A. Wallington, W. Köckenberger, H.E. Gunson and N.M. Ratcliffe
• Atmospheric composition and the phyllosphere : the role of foliar surfaces in regulating biogeochemical cycles / D. Fowler, J.N. Cape, J. Muller, M. Coyle, M.A. Sutton, R. Smith and C. Jeffree.