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=Required Reading for Graduate Course

General References

• Agrios, George N., 1997. Plant Pathology fourth edition, Academic Press. New York.
• Lucas, John A., 1998. Plant Pathology and Plant Pathogens third edition, Blackwell Science Ltd. Mass.
• Schumann, Gail L. 1991. Plant Diseases: their Biology and Social Impact. The American Phytopathological Society. St. Paul. MN. USA.
• Horsfall, J.G., and Dimond, A.E. 1959. Plant Pathology Academic Press. New York.
• Large, E.C. 1962. The Advance of the Fungi. Dover Press.
• Stakman, and Harrar .
• Walker, John Charles, 1957. Plant Pathology. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York.
• Van der Plank, J.E., 1963. Plant Diseases: Epidemics and Control. Academic Press, New York and London.

• Alexopoulos, Constantine John. 1962. Introductory Mycology Second edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.
• Griffin, David H. 1994. Fungal Physiology second edition, Wiley-Liss, New York.
• Hawksworth, D.L., Kirk, P.M., Sutton, B.C., and Pegler, D.N. 1995. Ainsworth and Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi Eight Edition, Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, U.K.
• Wessels, J.G.H., and Meinhardt, F (editors) 1994. The Mycota. Springer-Verlag, New York.

• Andrivon,D. 1993. Nomenclature for Pathogenicity and Virulence: the Need for Precision. Phytopathology 83:889-890.
• Shaner, G., Stromberg, E.L., Lacy, G.H., Barker, K.R., and Pirone, T.P., 1992. Nomenclature and Concepts of Pathogenicity and Virulence. Annual Review of Phytopathology 30:47-66.

• Beattie, G.A, and Lindow, S.E. 1999. Bacterial Colonization of Leaves: a Spectrum of Strategies. Phytopathology 89:353-359.
• Bergstrom, G.C, and Nicholson, R.L. 1999. The Biology of Corn Anthracnose: Knowledge to Exploit for Improved Management. Plant Disease 83:595-608 (specifically pgs. 595-603).

  Inoculum

  • Shaner, G.L., Bergstrom, G., Gilbert, J., Pedersen, W., Dill-Macky, R., Sweets, L., Corwin, B., Jin, Y., Gallenberg, D., and Wiersma, J., 1999. Daily Inoculum Levels of Gibberella zeae on Wheat Spikes. Plant Disease 83:662-666.

Appressoria

• Allen, E.A., Hazen, B.E., Hoch, H.C., Kwon, Y., Leinhos, G.M.E., Staples. R.C., Stunph, M.A., and Terhune, B.T. 1991. Appressorium formation in response to topographical signals by 27 rust species. Phytopathology 81:323-331.
• Churchill, A.C.L., Baker, C.J., O'Neil, N.R., and Elgin, J.H. 1988. Development of Colletotrichum trifolii races 1 an 2 on alfalfa clones resistant and susceptible to anthracnose. Can. J. Bot. 66:75-81.
• Dickman, M.B., Podilla, G.K., and Kolattukudy, P.E. 1989. Insertion of cutinase gene into a wound pahtogen enables it to infect intact host. Nature 342:446-448.
• Dickinson, S. 1971. Studies in the physiology of obligate parasitism. VIII. An analysis of fungal responses to thigmotrophic stimuli, Phytopathologische Zeitschrift 70:62-70.
• Dickinson, S. 1977. Studies in the physiology of obligate parasitism. X.. Induction of responses to thigmotrophic stimuli, Phytopathologische Zeitschrift 89:97-115.
• Emmett, R.W., and Parberry, D.G. 1975. Appressoria. Annual Review of Phytopathology 13:147-167.
• Hoch, H.C., Staples, R.C., Whitehead, B., Comeau, J. and Wolf, E.D. 1987. Signaling for growth orientaton and cell differentiation by surface topography in Uromyces. Science 235:1659-1662.
• MacKintoch, S.F., Mathews, D.E., and Van Etter, H.D. 1989. Two additional genes for pisatin demethylation and their relationship to the pathogenicity of Nectria Haematococcca on pea. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interactions 2:354-362.
• O'Neil, N.R., Elgin, J.H., and Baker, C.J. 1989. Characterization of induced resistance to anthracnose in alfalf by races, isolates, and species of Colletotrichum. Phytopathology 79:750-756.
• Porto, M.E., Grau, C.R., De Zoeten, G.A., and Gaard, G. 1988. Histopathology of Colletotrichum trifolii on alfalfa. Phytopathology 78:345-349.
• Schafer, W., Strancy, D., Ciuffetti, L., Van Etten, H.D., and Yoder, O.C. 1989. One enzyme makes a fungal pathogen, but not a saprophyte, virulent on a new host plant. Science 246:247-251.
• Terhune, B.T., Allen, E.A., Hoch, H.C., Wergin, W.P., and Erve., E.F. 1991. Canadian Journal of Botany.
• Wynn, W.K. 1976. Appressorium formation over stomates by the bean rust fungus: Response to a surface contact stimulus. Phytopatholgy 66:136-146.

Toxins
• Daly, J.M. 1981. Mechanisms of action. in: Toxins in Plant Disease. (R.D. Durbin ed.), pp. 331-394. Academic Press, New York.
• Wheeler, H., and Hanchey, P. 1968. Permeability phenomena in plant disease. Annual Review of Phytopatholoby 6:331-350.
• Wheeler, H. and Luke, H.H. 1963. Microbial toxins in plant disease. Annual Review of Microbiology 17:223-242.
• Scheffer, R.P. 1976. Host-specific toxins in relation to pahtogenesis and disease resistance, in: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Series, Vol. 4, Physiological Plant Pathology. (R. Heitefuss and P.H. WIlliams, eds.), PP. 247-269. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Enzymes

• Bateman, D.F., and Basham, H.G. 1976. Degradation of plant cell walls and membranes by microbial enzymes, in: Encyclopedia of Plant Pahgiology, New Series, Vol. 4, Physiological Planbt Pathology (R. Heitefuss, and P.H. Williams, eds.), pp. 316-355, Springer-Verlag, New York.
• Collmer, A. 1986. The molecular biology of pectic enzyme production and bacterial soft rot pathogenesis: In: Bailey, J. ed., biology and molecular biology of plant-microbe interactions. Berlin Springer-Verlag., pp. 277-289.
• Kolattukudy, P.P. 1981. Structure, biosynthesis and degradation of cutin and suberin. Annual Review of Plant Physiology 20:47-60.
• Nicholson, R.L., Kuc, J., and Williams, E.B. 1972. Histochemical demonstration of transitory esterase activity in Venturia inaequalis. Phytopathology 62:1242-1247.

Host-Parasite References

Gene-for-Gene
• Flor, H.H. 1971. Current status of the Gene-for-Gene Concept. Annual Review of Phytopathology 28:275-296.
• Dangl, J. L. 1995. Pièce de Résistance: novel classes of plant disease resistance genes. Cell 80: 363-366.
• Frank, S. A. Models of plant-pathogen coevolution. Trends in Genetics 8(6):213-219.
• Keen, N.T. 1990. Gene for gene complementarity in plant-pathogen interactions. Ann. Rev., Genet., 24:447-463.
• Thompson, J. N. and Burdon, J. J. 1992. Gene-for-gene coevolution between plants and parasites. Nature 360:121-125.

PR Proteins

• Gordon-Weeks, R., Sugars, J.M., Antonia. J.F., and White, R.F. 1997. Physiological and Molecular Plant pathology 50:263-273.

Systemic Acquired Resistance

• Anfoka, G., and Bucherauer, H. 1997. Systemic acquirecd resistance in tomato against Phytphthora infestans by pre-inoculation with Tobacco Necrosis Virus. Physiological and Molecualr Plant pathology 50:85-101.

Host Specific Toxins

• Clouse, S.D. and Gilchrist, D.G. 1986. Interaction of the asc locus in F8 paired lines of tomato with Alternaria alternata f.sp. lycopersici and AAL toxin. Phytopathology 77:80-82.
• Gilchrist, D.G., B. Ward, V. Moussatos, and C.J. Mirocha 1992. Genetic and physiological response to fumonisins and AAL-toxin by intact tissue of a higher plant. Mycopathologia, 117:57-64.
• Gilchrist, D.G. and Grogran, R.G. 1976. production and nature of a host-specific toxin from Alternaria alternata f.sp. lycopersici. Phytopathology, 66:165-171.
• Gilchrist, D.G. 1983. Molecular modes of action. In: J.M. Daly and B. Deverall, eds, Toxins and Plant pathogenesis. pp81-136. Academic Press, Sydney.
• Grogan, R.G., K.A. Kimble, and I. Missaghi 1975. a stem canker disease of tomato caused by Alternaria alternata f.sp. lycopersici. Phytopathology, 65:880-886.
• Merrill, A.H., Wang, E., Gilchrist, D.G., and Riley, R.T. 1993a. Fumonisins and other inhibitors of de novo sphingolipid biosynthesis. Advances in Lipid Research, 26:2155-234.
• Moussatos, V.V., Lucas, W.J., and Gilchrist, D.G. 1993. AAL-toxin-induced physiological changes in Lycopersicon esculentum Mill: Differential sucrose transport in tomato lines isogenic for the Asc locus. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 42:359-371.
• Moussatos, V.V., Yang, S.F., Ward, B.W., and Gilchrist, D.G. 1994. AAL-toxin induced physiological changes in Lycopersicum esculentum Mill: roles of ethylene and pyrimidine biosynthesis intermediates in the necrosis response. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 44:455-468.
• Nelson, P.E., Desjardins, A.E., and Plattner, R.D. 1993. Fumonisins, lycotoxins produced by Fusarium species: biology, chemistry, and significance. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol., 31:233-252.
• Siler, D.J. and Gilchrist, D.G. 1983. Properties of host-specific toxins produced by Alternaria alternata f.sp. lycopersici in culture and in tomato plants. Physiol Plant Pathol., 23:265-274.
• Wang, H., Jones, C., Ciacci-Zanella, J., Holt, T., Gilchrist, D.G., and Dickman, M.B. 1996. Fumonisins and Alternaria alternata lycopersici toxins: Sphinganine analog mycotoxins induce apoptosis in monkey kidney cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:3461-3465.
• Winter, C., Gilchrist, D., Dickman, M., and Jones, C. 1996. Chemistry and Biological Activity of AAL-toxins. In: Fumonisins in Food, L. Jackson ed. Plenum Press, New York, pp307-316.

Host Response Compounds
• Bostock, R.M., Kuc, J.A., and Laine, R.A. 1981. Eicosapentaenoic and arachidonic acids from Phytophthora infestans elicit fungitoxic sesquiterpenes in the potato. Science 212:67-69.
• Bottini, A.T., Bowen, J.R., Gilchrist, D.G. Phytotoxins. II. Characterization of a phytotoxic fraction from Alternaria alternata f.sp. lycopersici. Tetrahedron Letters 1981, 22:2723-2726.
• Lamb, C.J. 1994. Plant disease resistance genes in signal perception and transduction. Cell 76:419-422.

Apoptosis

• Bachmair, A., Becker, F., Masterson, R.V., and Schell, J. 1990. Perturbation of the ubiquitin system causes leaf curling, vascular tissue alternations and necrotic lesions in a higher plant. EMBO J. 9:4543-4549.
• Chasan, R. 1994. Tracing trachery element development. Plant Cell 6:917-919.
• Cohen, G.M., Sun, X., Fearnhead, H., MacFarlane, M., Brown, D.G., Snowden, R.T., and Dinsdale, D. 1994. Formation of large molecular weight fragments of DNA is a key committed step of apoptosis in thymocytes. J. Immunology 153:507-516.
• Collins, R.J., Harmon, B.V., Gobe, G.C., and Kerr, J.F.R. 1992. Internucleosomal DNA cleavage should not be the sole criterion for identifying apoptosis. In: J. Radiat. Biol. 61:451-453.
• Corcoran, G.B., Fix, L., Jones, D.P., Trienen Moslen, M., Nicortera, P., Oberhammer, F.A., and Buttyan, R. 1994. Contemporary issues in toxicology. Apoptosis: molecular control point in toxicity. Toxicology and App. Pharmacol. 128:169-181.
• Critchfield, J.M. and Lenardo, M.J. 1995. Antigen-induced programmed cell death as a new approach to immune therapy. Clin. Immuno. and Immunopathol. 75:13-19.
• Dietrich, R.A., Delaney, T.P., Uknes, S.J., Ward, E.R., Ryals, J.A., and Dangl, J.L. 1994. Arabadopsis mutants stimulating disease resistance response. Cell, 77:565-577.
• Esau, K. 1977. Seed Plant Anatomy. Academic Press.
• Evan, G. 1994. Why we live and why we die. Curr. Biol. 1:137-141.
• Gold, R. Schmied, M., Giegerich, G., Breitschopf, H. Hartung, P., Toyka, V., Lassmann, H. 1994. Differentiation between cellular apoptosis and necrosis by the combined use of in situ tailing and nick translation techniques. Laboratory Investigation, 7,219.
• Gorczya, W., Gong, J., and Darzynkiewics, A. 1993. Detection of DNA strand breaks in individual apoptotic cells by the in situ terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase and nick translation assays. Cancer Res., 53:1945-1451.
• Greenberg, J.T., Guo, A., Klessig, D.F., and Ausubel 1994. Programmed cell death in plants: a pathogen-triggered response activated coordinately with multiple defense functions. Cell, 77:551-563.
• Greenberg, J.T. and Ausabel, F.M. 1993. Arabadopsis mutants compromised for the control of cellular damage during pathogenesis and aging. Plant Journal, 4:327-341.
• Hengartner, M.O. and Horvitz, H.R. 1994. The ins and outs of programmed cell death during C. elegans development. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., 345:243-246.
• Huang, C., Dickman, M.B., Henderson, G., and Jones, C. 1995. Repression of protein kinase C and stimulation of cyclic AMP response elements by fumonisin, a fungal encoded toxin which is a carcinogen. Cancer Research 55:1655-1659.
• Kerr, J.F.R., Wyllie, A.H., and Currie, A.R. 1972. Apoptosis: a basic biological phenomenon with wide-ranging implications in tissue kinetics. British J. Cancer, 26:239-357.
• Kolesnick, R., and Fuks, Z. 1995. Ceramide: A signal for apoptosis or mitogenesis? J. Exp. Med. 191:1949-1952.
• Martin, S.J. 1993. Apoptosis: suicide, execution or murder? Trends in Cell Biology, 3:141-144.
• Mittler, R., Shulaev, V. and Lam, E. 1995. Coordinated activation of programmed cell death and defense mechanisms in transgenic tobacco plants expressing a bacterial proton pump. Plant Cell, 7:29-42.
• Mittler, R. and Lam, E. 1995. In situ detection of nDNA fragmentation during differentiation of tracheary elements in higher plants. Plant Physiol, 108:489-493.
• O'Neill, S.D., Nadeau, J.A., Zhang, X.S., Bui, A.Q., and Halevy, A.H. 1993. Interorgan regulation of ethylene biosynthetic genes by pollination. The Plant Cell, 5:419-432.
• Ryerson, D.E., and Heath, M.C. 1996. Cleavage of nuclear DNA into oligonucleosomal fragments during cell deaths induced by fungal infection or by abiotic treatments. The Plant Cell 8:393-402.
• Schwartz, L.M., Smith, S.W., and Jones, M.E. 1993. Do all programmed cell deaths occur via apoptosis? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:470-478.
• Shen, Y. and Shenk, T.E. 1995. Viruses and apoptosis. Curr. Biol., 5:105-111.
• Smart, C.A. 1994. Gene expression during leaf senescence. New Phytol., 126:419-448.
  
• Thompson, C.B. 1995. Apoptosis in the pathogenesis and treatment of disease. Science, 267:1456-1462.
• Tomei, L.D. and Cope, F.O., eds. 1994. Apoptosis II: The Molecular Basis of Apoptosis in Disease. Current Communications in Cell and Molecular Biology. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Cold Spring Harbor, NY. 430 pp.
• Tomei, L.D. and Cope, F.O., eds. 1991. Apoptosis: The Molecular Basis of Cell Death. Current Communications in Cell and Molecular Biology. Cold Spring Harbor laboratory press. Cold Spring harbor, NY., 246 pp.
• Vaux, D.L., Haecker, G., and Strasser, A. 1994. An evolutionary perspective on apoptosis Cell, 76:777-779.
• Wang, H., Li, J., Bostock, R.M., and Gilchrist, D.G. 1996. Apoptosis: A functional paradigm for programmed cell death induced by a host selective phytotoxin and invoked during development. The Plant Cell 8:375-391.
• Williams, G.T. and Smith, C.A. 1993. Molecular regulation of apoptosis: genetic controls on cell death. Cell, 74:777-779.
• Williams, G.T., Smith, C.A., McCarthy, J.J., and Grimes, E.A. 1992. Apoptosis: final control point in cell biology. Trends Cell Biol., 2:263-267.
• Woodson, W.R., Park, K.Y., Drory, A., Larsen, P.B., and Wang, H. 1992. Expression of ethylene biosynthetic pathway transcripts in senescing carnation flowers. Plant Physiol. 99:526-532.
• Wyllie, A.H. 1995. The genetic regulation of apoptosis. Current Opinion in genetics and Development, 5:97-104.

Epidemiology

• Hartman, J.R., Parisi, L., and Bautrais. P. 1999. Effect of Leaf Wetness Duration, Temperature, and Conidial Inoculum Dose on Apple Scab Infections. Plant Disease 83:531-534.

Mycotoxins

• Zuber, M.S., Lillehoj, E.M., and Renfro, B.L. eds. 1987. Aflatoxin in Maize: A proceeding of the workshop. CIMMYT, Mexico. D.F.
• Calda, E.D., Jones, A.D., Winter, C.K., Ward, B., and Gilchrist, D.G. 1995. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of sphinganine analog mycotoxins. Anal. Chem. 67:196-207
• Gilchrist, D.G., Wang, H., and Bostock, R.M. 1995. Sphingosine related-mycotoxins in plant and animal diseases. Can. J. Bot. 73, Suppl. 1, S459-467.

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