Dutch Elm Disease Research

Elm Breeding and Cytology.- 1. Why Bother About the Elm?.- 2. Seven Dutch Women Scientists Whose Early Research Is Basic to Our Knowledge of the “Dutch Elm Disease”.- 3. The Dutch Elm Breeding Program.- 4. American Liberty Elms and Beyond: Going from the Impossible to the Difficult.- 5. Progress in the Development of Disease-Resistant Elms.- 6. An Old Problem; A New Approach.- 7. Demands and Opportunities for Selecting Disease-Resistant Elms.- 8. Cytological and Biochemical Aspects of Elm Improvement.- Tissue Culture & Toxins.- 9. Elm Improvement Via Biotechnological Methods.- 10. Micropropagation and Regeneration of DED-Resistant Elms Using Protoplast and Tissue Culture Techniques.- 11. Cerato-ulmin: A Unique Wilt Toxin of Instrumental Significance in the Development of Dutch Elm Disease.- 12. Amino Acid Sequence and Spectroscopic Studies of Dutch Elm Disease Toxin, Cerato-ulmin.- 13. Strategies for the Production of Disease-Resistant Elms.- 14. Development of Model Systems to Screen Elms Resistant to Dutch Elm Disease.- 15. Biological Control of Dutch Elm Disease by Exploiting Resistance in the Host.- Molecular Biology Approaches.- 16. Cloning of Pathogenesis-Related Genes from Ulmus americana.- 17. Mansonones, Elicitors and Virulence.- 18. Characterization of Isolates of Ophiostoma ulmi by Molecular Techniques.- 19. Genetic Diversity in Elms: What Molecular Data Tell Us.- 20. Mechanisms of Resistance: Can They Help Save Susceptible Elms?.- 21. Alterations of Vessel Elements and Reactions of Surrounding Tissues in the DED Syndrome.- 22. Conventional and Molecular Genetic Approaches to the Study of Pathogenicity in Ophiostoma ulmi sensu lato.- 23. DNA Polymorphism, Perithecial Size and Molecular Aspects of D Factors in Ophiostoma-ulmi and O. novo-ulmi.- 24. D Factors and Their Potential for Controlling Dutch Elm Disease.