Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses: From Phytohormones to Genome Reorganization: From Phytohormones to Genome Reorganization

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ISBN: 9780824700447 | 0824700449
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Copyright: 7/1/1999

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Covers the remarkable versatility of plants in adapting to environmental change-emphasizing the unpredictable nature of plant behavior under stress & in relation to complex interactions of biological pathways. Analyzes environmentally triggered adaptations in developmental programs of plants that lead to permanent, heritable DNA modifications.

Foreword

iii

Dennis Baker

Preface

Contributors

xiii

PART I General Concepts

Introduction to the Response of Plants to Environmental Stresses

(26)

H. R. Lerner

The Importance of Individuality

(16)

Anthony J. Trewavas

Plant Cell Wall Modifications Induced by Adaptation to Growth on the Herbicide 2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile

(8)

Deborah P. Delmer

Esther Shedletzky

Miri Shmuel

Gene Switches and Stress Management: Modulation of Gene Expression by Transcription Factors

(20)

Eric Lam

Lee Meisel

Stressful Lifestyle-Associated Mutation in Microorganisms

(20)

Mary-Jane Lombardo

Reuben S. Harris

Susan M. Rosenberg

Differentiation of Vegetative Anabaena Cells into Nitrogen-Fixing Heterocysts

(20)

Herbert Bohme

Bernd Masepohl

Genetic and Epigenetic Instability in Tissue Culture and Regenerated Progenies

111

(38)

Paula M. Olhoft

Ronald L. Phillips

The Environment as an Active Generator of Adaptive Genomic Variation

149

(12)

Christopher A. Cullis

The Effect of Environmental Stress on Repetitive DNA Behavior in Plants

161

(10)

Paola Bassi

Plant Evolution: Toward an Adaptive Theory

171

(76)

G. N. Amzallag

Oxidative Stress as a Regulator of Environmental Responses in Plants

247

(18)

Alex Levine

The Alternative Oxidase: Is It a Respiratory Pathway Allowing a Plant to Cope with Stress?

265

(22)

Bert H. Simons

Hans Lambers

Role of Phytohormones in Plant Responses to Stresses

287

(16)

Chanan Itai

Regulation of Gene Expression by Abscisic Acid During Environmental Stress

303

(30)

Aine L. Plant

Elizabeth A. Bray

Abscisic Acid: A Long Distance Stress Signal in Salt-Stressed Plants

333

(16)

Wolfram Hartung

W. Dieter Jeschke

PART II Plant Responses to Particular Stresses or Interactions with Other Organisms or Viruses

Metabolic Aspects of the Phosphate Starvation Response in Plants

349

(24)

William C. Plaxton

M. Christian Carswell

The Response of Plants to Oxygen Deprivation: Role of Enzyme Induction in the Improvement of Tolerance to Anoxia

373

(22)

Pierre Saglio

Veronique Germain

Berenice Ricard

Some Effects of Environmental Factors on the Acquisition of Inorganic Ions by Higher Plants

395

(18)

Brian C. Loughman

G. Ferrari

Involvement of the Cell Wall in Responses to Water Deficit and Flooding

413

(18)

Imad N. Saab

Stimulated Shoot Elongation: A Mechanism of Semiaquatic Plants to Avoid Submergence Stress

431

(18)

L.A.C.J. Voesenek

C.W.P.M. Blom

Adaptations of the Photosynthetic Apparatus to Stress Conditions

449

(26)

Doris Godde

Root Impedance: Sensing, Signaling and Physiological Effects

475

(22)

Josette Masle

The Influence of Temperature Extremes on Gene Expression, Genomic Structure, and the Evolution of Induced Tolerance in Plants

497

(52)

Charles Guy

Regulation of the γ-Aminobutyrate-Synthesizing Enzyme, Glutamate Decarboxylase, by Calcium--Calmodulin: A Mechanism for Rapid Activation in Response to Stress

549

(26)

Wayne A. Snedden

Hillel Fromm

Plant Desiccation

575

(16)

John Chandler

Dorothea Bartels

Evolutionary Consequences of Transition to a Lichen Symbiotic State and Physiological Adaptation to Oxidative Damage Associated with Poikilohydry

591

(38)

Ilse Kranner

Francois Lutzoni

The Involvement of Flavonoids, Nod Factors, and Phytohormones in Nodulation

629

(30)

Yiwen Fang

Ann M. Hirsch

Conifer Chemical Defenses Against Bark Beetles: The Modulation of Monoterpene Biosynthesis by Wounding, Environmental Stress, and Ethylene

659

(24)

Efraim Lewinsohn

Sadanobu Katoh

Rodney Croteau

Plant Responses to Pathogens

683

(24)

Marcos Lusso

Joseph Kuc

Viral Pathogens and Host Plant Interactions: Mutual Survival

707

(12)

Raffi Salomon

Index

719

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