Plant-parasitic nematodes are among the most destructive plant pathogens, causing huge losses to agronomic crops worldwide. This book provides an up-to-date review of research related to two of the most important nematode pests: root-knot and cyst nematodes.

Current reviews of the cellular and molecular biology of cyst and root-knot nematode parasitism Very useful reference for the fields of plant pathology and nematode parasitism Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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R. Howard Berg is Director of the Integrated Microscopy Facility at the Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Florida (1977) and received postdoctoral training at the University of Florida and at Oregon State University. After several years managing the biological electron microscopy facility at the University of Florida, he joined the faculty at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, where he became an Associate Professor. He joined the Danforth Plant Science Center in 2000. His research interests include plant cell interactions with nitrogen-fixing endosymbionts, nematodes, and viruses.

Christopher G. Taylor studied Biochemistry (B.S., 1989) at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania followed by a Ph.D. in Genetics (1995) with an emphasis on gene expression in roots at North Carolina State University. In 1995, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Scientist in Nematology at Monsanto Co. in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1999, he became a Senior Scientist and Group Leader of Nematology for Akkadix, Inc. in San Diego, California. From 2001 to the present, he has been a Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri Columbia and at the University of Missouri St. Louis. His major research interests include plant cell biology of root biotic interactions, nematology, microbiology, gene expression analysis and functional genomics.

Inhalt
Plant Infection by Root-Knot Nematode.- Parasitism Genes: What They Reveal about Parasitism.- Molecular Insights in the Susceptible Plant Response to Nematode Infection.- Resistant Plant Responses.- Development of the Root-Knot Nematode Feeding Cell.- Structure of Cyst Nematode Feeding Sites.- Transcriptomic Analysis of Nematode Infestation.- Genomic Analysis of the Root-Knot Nematode Genome.- Molecular Approaches Toward Resistance to Plant-Parasitic Nematodes.