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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
K. Dhusia et al. (eds.), Fungal Siderophores, Fungal Biology,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53077-8_4
Chapter 4
Siderophores Mediated Iron Acquisition
and Virulence of Brown Rot Disease
in Stone Fruits Caused by Monilinia
fructicola in Jammu and Kashmir
Sadia Ashraf, Kalyani Dhusia, and Susheel Verma
Contents
4.1 Background
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4.2 Siderophore and Fungal Pathogenesis
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4.3 Pathways of Fungal Siderophores Biosynthesis
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4.3.1 Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthetases (NRPSs) Multi Enzymes Dependent
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4.3.2 NRPS-Independent
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4.4 Siderophores and Plant Immune Responses
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4.5 Mechanisms of Siderophores Action on Plant Immune Response
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4.5.1 Siderophore Regulation via Their Iron Scavenging Effect
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4.5.2 Siderophores Regulation by Cell Receptors
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4.6 Siderophore-Mediated Plant Immunity Activation
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4.6.1 Role of Siderophores in Fungal Pathogenicity
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4.6.2 Role of Siderophores, in (ROS) Generation, and Fungal Sexual
Development
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4.7 Role of Siderophores in Fungal Virulence
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4.8 Future Prospects
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References
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S. Ashraf
Department of Botany, Baba Gulam Shah Badshah University,
Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India
K. Dhusia
Department of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Sam Higginbottom University of
Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Department of System & Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
The Bronx, NY, USA
S. Verma (*)
Conservation and Molecular Biology lab, Department of Botany, School of Biosciences and
Biotechnology, Baba Gulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India