This book is a first attempt to link well-known plant resistance phenomena with emerging concepts in molecular biology. Resistance phenomena such as the local l

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One hundred years ago, when Martinus W. Beijerinck in Delft and Friedrich Loeffler on Riems Island discovered a new class of infectious agents in plants and ani

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This book offers a collection of information on successive steps of molecular 'dialogue' between plants and pathogens. It additionally presents data that reflec