Ebook: Cereal Rusts. Volume 1. Origins, Specificity, Structure, and Physiology

Academic Press, 1984. — 546 pp.
ISBN 0-12-148401-7.The cereal rusts are potentially serious disease threats to cereal crops and have caused widespread losses in wheat, oats, barley, and related crops. To assist in the worldwide effort to control the cereal rusts, this two-volume treatise brings together in a single reference source the accumulated knowledge of the cereal rusts. Contributing to this new knowledge have been biochemists, cytologists, geneticists, physiologists, taxonomists, and epidemiologists, as well as pathologists. The work of these diverse specialists as applied to cereal rusts forms the basis of these volumes.
The two volumes will serve the needs not only of cereal rust investigators who have found it increasingly difficult to assimilate the world's cereal rust literature, but also of plant pathologists generally, as a reference source for teaching, extension, and research. Many of the principles of plant pathology have been developed from studies of cereal rusts. Agronomists and other agriculturalists concerned with cereal crop production or world food supplies will also find in these volumes useful summaries and evaluations of past work as well as projections for the future by many of the leading workers in the field.Contents:
Part I. Origins.
Contributions of Early Scientists to Knowledge of Cereal Rusts (J. F. Schafer, A P. Roelfs, and W. R. Bushneil).
Evolution at the Center of Origin (J. Wahl, Y. Anikster, J. Manisterski, and A. Segal).
Taxonomy of the Cereal Rust Fungi (D. B. O. Savile).
Part II. Specificity.
The Formae Speciales (Y. Anikster).
Race Specificity and Methods of Study (A. P. Roelfs).
Genetics of the Pathogen-Host Association (William Q. Loegering).
Histology and Molecular Biology of Host-Parasite Specificity (R. Rohringer and R. Heitefuss).
Virulence Frequency Dynamics of Cereal Rust Fungi (J. V. Groth).
Part III. Structure and Physiology.
A. The Rust Fungus.
Germination of Urediospores and Differentiation of Infection Structures (Richard C. Staples and Vladimir Macko).
Controlled Infection by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici under Artificial Conditions (J. B. Rowell).
Developmental Ultrastructure of Hyphae and Spores (D. E. Harder).
Development and Physiology of Teliospores (Kurt Mendgen).
Obligate Parasitism and Axenic Culture (P. G. Williams).
B. The Host—Parasite Interface.
Structure and Physiology of Haustoria (D. E. Harder and J. Chong).
C. The Rusted Host.
Structural and Physiological Alterations in Susceptible Host Tissue (W. R. Bushnell).
Effects of Rust on Plant Development in Relation to the Translocation of Inorganic and Organic Solutes (Richard D. Durbin).