The editors and their international contributors provide an up-to-date overview of bacterial-plant interactions in the present context of population growth, climate change, pathogens, and eroding food prosperity on the one hand and major advances in technology and scientific exploration on the other. They introduce the reader to advances in the field of bacteria-plant interactions centered on plant pathogens, human pathogen contamination and potential control strategies. There are eight chapters: functional diversification of phytopathogenic type III secreted effector proteins; systems biology of Pseudomonas synringae type III secretion effector repertoires; towards understanding fire blight: virulence mechanisms and their regulation in Erwinia amylovora; plant-pathogenic Acidovorax species; the interactions between gram-positive pathogens and plant hosts; the molecular interactions between human-pathogenic bacteria and plants; recent advances in Pseudomonas biocontrol; the potential role of bacteriophages in shaping plant-bacteria interactions. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
