Jeremy J. Burdon, Anna-Liisa LaineCambridge University Press, 1/31/2019EAN 9781108476294, ISBN10: 1108476295Hardcover, 392 pages, 23.6 x 15.7 x 2.3 cmLanguage: EnglishThis volume sits at the cross-roads of a number of areas of scientific interest that, in the past, have largely kept themselves separate - agriculture, forestry, population genetics, ecology, conservation biology, genomics and the protection of plant genetic resources. Yet these areas also have a lot of common interests and increasingly these independent lines of inquiry are tending to coalesce into a more comprehensive view of the complexity of plant-pathogen associations and their ecological and evolutionary dynamics. This interdisciplinary source provides a comprehensive overview of this changing situation by identifying the role of pathogens in shaping plant populations, species and communities, tackling the issue of the increasing importance of invasive and newly emerging diseases and giving broader recognition to the fundamental importance of the influence of space and time (as manifest in the metapopulation concept) in driving epidemiological and co-evolutionary trajectories.Preface1. The diverse and ubiquitous nature of pathogens2. Environment as a determinant of pathogen incidence, abundance and evolution3. Genetics of host plant resistance and pathogen infectivity and aggressiveness4. Sources and patterns of variation in plant pathogens5. Demographic and genetic processes in host and pathogen populations6. Co-evolutionary dynamics in a metapopulation context7. Co-evolution and host and pathogen life-histories8. Effect of pathogens on plant community dynamics9. Future developments.
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