Roles of Plant Hormones in Plant Resistance
and Susceptibility to Pathogens ......................... ............ 1
Lionel Navarro, Rajendra Bari, Alexandre Seilaniantz, Adnane Nemri,
and Jonathan D.G. Jones
Canine Genetics Facilitates Understanding of Human Biology ........... 11
Elaine A. Ostrander, Heidi G. Parker, and Nathan B. Sutter
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae AvrXA21 Activity Is Dependent
on a Type One Secretion System, Is Regulated by a Two-Component
Regulatory System that Responds to Cell Population Density,
and Is Conserved in Other Xanthomonas spp .......................... 25
Sang-Won Lee, Sang-Wook Han, Laura E. Bartley, and Pamela C. Ronald
Unraveling the Genetic Mysteries of the Cat: New Discoveries
in Feline-Inherited Diseases and Traits ............... .......... 41
Leslie A. Lyons
Variation in Chicken Gene Structure and Expression Associated
with Food-Safety Pathogen Resistance: Integrated Approaches
to Salmonella Resistance ............. ......................... 57
S.J. Lamont
Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics of the Phytophthora sojae
Soybean Interaction .............................................. 67
Brett M. Tyler, Rays H.Y. Jiang, Lecong Zhou, Sucheta Tripathy,
Daolong Dou, Trudy Torto-Alalibo, Hua Li, Yongcai Mao, Bing Liu,
Miguel Vega-Sanchez, Santiago X. Mideros, Regina Hanlon, Brian M. Smith,
Konstantinos Krampis, Keying Ye, Steven St. Martin, Anne E. Dorrance,
Ina Hoeschele, and M.A. Saghai Maroof
Canine SINEs and Their Effects on Phenotypes of the Domestic Dog ..... 79
Leigh Anne Clark, Jacquelyn M. Wahl, Christine A. Rees, George M. Strain,
Edward J. Cargill, Sharon L. Vanderlip, and Keith E. Murphy
Ovine Disease Resistance: Integrating Comparative and Functional
Genomics Approaches in a Genome Information-Poor Species ........... 89
H.W. Raadsma, K.J. Fullard, N.M. Kingsford, E.T. Margawati,
E. Estuningsih, S. Widjayanti, Subandriyo, N. Clairoux, T.W. Spithill,
and D. Piedrafita
Integrating Genomics to Understand the Marek's Disease
Virus - Chicken Host-Pathogen Interaction ......................... 115
Hans H. Cheng
Combining Genomic Tools to Dissect Multifactorial Virulence
in Pseudomonas aeruginosa .................... ............... 127
Daniel G. Lee, Jonathan M. Urbach, Gang Wu, Nicole T. Liberati,
Rhonda L. Feinbaum, and Frederick M. Ausubel
Genetic Dissection of the Interaction Between the Plant Pathogen
Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria and Its Host Plants .............. 151
Ulla Bonas, Doreen Giirlebeck, Daniela Biittner, Monique Egler,
Simone Hahn, Sabine Kay, Antje Kriiger, Christian Lorenz, Robert Szczesny,
and Frank Thieme
Structure and Function of RXLR Effectors
of Plant Pathogenic Oomycetes .......... .... ................... 161
William Morgan, Jorunn Bos, Catherine Bruce, Minkyoung Lee,
Hsin-Yen Liu, Sang-Keun Oh, Jing Song, Joe Win, Carolyn Young,
and Sophien Kamoun
The Biotrophic Phase of Ustilago maydis: Novel Determinants
for Compatibility ................................ .............. 173
Thomas Brefort, Kerstin Schipper, Gunther D6hlemann,
and Regine Kahmann
Virulence Evolution in Malaria .............................. .183
M.J. Mackinnon
The Ins and Outs of Host Recognition of Magnaporthe oryzae ........... 199
Sally A. Leong