Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Section 1: Plant Immune Response Pathways. Innate Immunity: Pattern Recognition in Plants / Delphine Chinchilla, Thomas Boller -- Microbial Effectors and Their Role in Plant Defense Suppression / Dagmar Hann, Thomas Boller -- Section 2: Genome-Wide Analyses of Microbial Effectors and Effector Evolution. Comparative Genomics and Evolution of Bacterial Type III Effectors / Ralf Koebnik, Magdalen Lindeberg -- The Effectors of Smut Fungi / Gunther Doehlemann, Kerstin Schipper, Regine Kahmann -- Evolutionary and Functional Dynamics of Oomycete Effector Genes / Mireille van Damme, Liliana M Cano, Ricardo Oliva, Sebastian Schornack, Mar̕a Eugenia Segretin, Sophien Kamoun, Sylvain Raffaele -- Section 3: Microbial Effector Functions: Virulence and Avirulence. Suppression and Activation of the Plant Immune System by Effectors AvrPto and AvrPtoB / Gregory Martin -- Rust Effectors / Šbastien Duplessis, David L Joly, Peter N Dodds -- Dothideomycete Effectors Facilitating Biotrophic and Necrotrophic Lifestyles / Thierry Rouxel, Pierre J G M de Wit -- Section 4: Effector Trafficking: Processing/Uptake by Plants and Secretion/Delivery by Microbes. Effector Translocation and Delivery by the Rice Blast Fungus / Thomas A Mentlak, Nicholas J Talbot, Thomas Kroj -- Entry of Oomycete and Fungal Effectors into Host Cells / Brett M Tyler -- Section 5: Emerging Effectors--Symbionts, Nematodes, Insects, Metabolites. Roles of Effector Proteins in the Legume₆Rhizobia Symbiosis / Silvia Ardissone, William James Deakin -- Mutualistic Effectors: Architects of Symbiosis / Jonathan M Plett, Francis Martin -- Nematode Effector Proteins: Targets and Functions in Plant Parasitism / Marie-No︠lle Rosso, Richard S Hussey, Eric L Davis, Geert Smant, Thomas J Baum, Pierre Abad, Melissa G Mitchum -- Effectors in Plant₆Insect Interactions / Jorunn I B Bos, Saskia A Hogenhout -- Fungal Secondary Metabolites: Ancient Toxins and Novel Effectors in Plant₆Microbe Interactions / J̌r̥me Collemare, Marc-Henri Lebrun -- Index.

Innate immunity: pattern recognition in plants / Delphine Chinchilla & Thomas Boller -- Microbial effectors and their role in plant defence suppression / Dagmar Hann & Thomas Boller -- Comparative genomics and evolution of bacterial type III secretion effectors / Ralf Koebnik & Magdalen Lindeberg -- The effectors of smut fungi / Gunther Doehlemann, Kerstin Schipper and Regine Kahmann -- Evolutionary and functional dynamics of oomycete effector genes / Mireille van Damme [and others] -- Suppression and activation of the plant immune system by pseudomonas syringae effectors AvrPto and AvrPtoB / Greg Martin -- Rust effectors / Sébastien Duplessis, David Joly & Peter Dodds -- Dothideomycete effectors facilitating biotrophic and necrotrophic life styles / Thierry Rouxel & Pierre de Wit -- Effector translocation and delivery by the rice blast fungus magnaporthe oryzae / Thomas Mentlak, Nicholas J Talbot and Thomas Kroj -- Entry of oomycete and fungal effectors into host cells / Brett Tyler -- Roles of effector proteins in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis / Silvia Ardissone & William James Deakin -- Mutualistic effectors: architects of symbiosis / Jonathan Plett & Francis Martin -- Nematode effector proteins: targets and functions in plant parasitism / Marie-Noëlle Rosso [and others] -- Effectors in plant-insect interactions / Jorunn I.B. Bos and Saskia A. Hogenhout -- Fungal secondary metabolites as effectors in plant microbe interactions / Jérôme Collemare & Marc-Henri Lebrun.

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