Molecular Botany: Signals and the Environment

About this book

This book provides a thorough overview of the ways in which environmental stimuli lead to changes within plants. A range of topics is addressed, encompassing the role of the cell wall and glycans in signalling events through to the molecular events regulating defence-gene activation and developmental programming.

Contents

Cell wall structural proteins: can we deduce function from sequence?, J.E. Varner; Oligosaccharins as plant growth regulators, S.C. Fry; molecular and structural features of the pistal of Nicotiana alata, A.H. Atkinson; developmental dynamics of plant cell surface glycoproteins - towards a molecular plant anatomy P.J. Knox; glycoprotein domains and their role in gamete recognition in Fucus, J.A. Callow; formation of embryonic cells in plant tissue cultures, S. de Vries; lipo-oligosaccharide signalling: the mediation of recognition and nodule organogenesis induction in the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis, J. Denarie; bacterial and plant glycoconjugates at the Rhizobium-legume interface, N.J. Brewin; barley-fungal interactions: signals and the environment of the host-pathogen interface, S. Gurr; oligosaccharins involved in plant growth and host-pathogen interactions, A. Darvill; systemic signals condition plant cells for increased elicitation of phenylpropanoid defence responses, H. Kauss; characterization of hepta-B-glucoside elicitor-binding protein(s) in soybean, M.G. Hahn; cytostolic protons as secondary messengers in elicitor induced defence responses, Y. Mathieu; signal transduction pathways in plant pathogenesis response, R. Fluhr; signals involved in the wound-induced expression of the proteinase inhibitor II gene of potato, H. Pena-Cortes; polypeptide signalling for plant defence genes, B. McGurl; signalling events in the wound response of tomato plants, D.J. Bowles; regulation of gene expression in ripening fruits by sense and antisense genes, D. Grierson; perception and transduction of an elicitor signal in cultured parsley cells, T. Nurnberger; ion channels and calcium signalling in plants - multiple pathways and cross-talk, D. Sanders; using T-DNA tagging to search for genes involved in the mechanism of phytohormone action, R. Walden; molecular biology of resistance to potato virus X in potato, D. Baulcombe; induction, modification and perception of the salicylic acid signal in plant defence, D.F. Klessig; regulation of gene expression in bacterial pathogens, M. Daniels; molecular mechanisms underlying induction of plant defence gene transcription, C.J. Lamb; photomorphogenic mutants of tomato, R.E. Kendrick; genes controlling Arabidopsis photomorphogenesis, J. Chory; cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding oat PFl: a protein that binds to the PE1 region in the oat phytochrome A3 gene promoter, J. Nieto-Sotelo; elucidation of phytochrome signal-transduction mechanisms, G. Neuhaus.

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