Pamp Signals in Plant Innate Immunity: Signal Perception and Transduction

By P. Vidhyasekaran

Plant innate immunity is a potential surveillance system of plants and is the first line of defense against invading pathogens. The immune system is a sleeping system in unstressed healthy plants and is activated on perception of the pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMP; the pathogen's signature) of invading pathogens. The PAMP alarm/danger signals are perceived by plant pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs). The plant immune system uses several second messengers to encode information generated by the PAMPs and deliver the information downstream of PRRs to proteins which decode/interpret signals and initiate defense gene expression. This book describes the most fascinating PAMP-PRR signaling complex and signal transduction systems. It also discusses the highly complex networks of signaling pathways involved in transmission of the signals to induce distinctly different defense-related genes to mount offence against pathogens.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400774257
• ISBN13: 9789400774254
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"