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. DFactors and Their Potential for Controlling Dutch Elm Disease. Language: English