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Long-Distance Systemic Signaling and Communication in Plants

František Baluška

Our view of plants is changing dramatically. Rather than being only slowly responding organisms, their signaling is often very fast and signals, both of endogenous and exogenous origin, spread throughout plant bodies rapidly. Higher plants coordinate and integrate their...

Epigenetic Memory and Control in Plants

Gideon Grafi , Nir Ohad

Epigenetics commonly acts at the chromatin level modulating its structure and consequently its function in gene expression and as such plays a critical role in plant response to internal and external cues. This book highlights recent advances in our understanding of...

Polar Auxin Transport

František Baluška , Rujin Chen

The importance of the plant growth regulator auxin for plant growth has long been recognized, even before the discovery of its chemical structures in the early 20th century. Physiological studies in the decades since have demonstrated that auxin is unidirectionally...

Plant Signaling Peptides

Chris Gehring , Helen R. Irving

Plants have evolved with a complex array of signaling molecules to facilitate their growth and development and their interactions with the environment.  A vast number of different peptide molecules form an important but until recently often overlooked component amongst...

MicroRNAs in Plant Development and Stress Responses

Ramanjulu Sunkar

Precise regulation of gene expression in both time and space is vital to plant growth, development and adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress conditions. This is achieved by multiple mechanisms, with perhaps the most important control being exerted at the level of...

Secretions and Exudates in Biological Systems

František Baluška , Jorge M. Vivanco

Secretions and emissions in biological systems play important signaling roles within the organism but also in its communications with the surrounding environment.  This volume brings together state-of-the-art information on the role of secretions and emissions in...

Receptor-like Kinases in Plants

Birgit Kemmerling , Frans Tax

Sequencing projects have revealed the presence of at least several hundred receptor kinases in a typical plant genome.  Receptor kinases are therefore the largest family of primary signal transducers in plants, and their abundance suggests an immense signaling network...

Biocommunication of Plants

František Baluška , Günther Witzany

Plants are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realise the optimum variant. They take...

Signaling and Communication in Plant Symbiosis

František Baluška , Silvia Perotto

A multiplicity of biotrophic micro-organisms interact with plants in nature, forming symbiotic relationships that range from mutualism to antagonism. Microorganisms that have adopted biotrophy as a lifestyle are able to colonize the plant and often to cross the plant...

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

Sheng Luan

Plants cannot move away from their environments. As a result, all plants that have survived to date have evolved sophisticated signaling mechanisms that allow them to perceive, respond, and adapt to constantly changing environmental conditions. Among the many cellular...

Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants

Przemyslaw Wojtaszek

Chemical reactions and interactions between molecules are commonly considered the basis of life, and thus the biochemical nature of cells and organisms is relatively well recognized. Research conducted in recent years, however, increasingly indicates that physical...

Chemical Biology of the Tropics

Jorge M. Vivanco , Tiffany Weir

The mystique of the rainforest has captured the imaginations of generations of young people, explorers, authors, and biologists. It is a delicate ecosystem whose myriad sounds and smells, whose vibrancy of life, is balanced by constant cycles of death and decay. It is a...

Transporters and Pumps in Plant Signaling

Markus Geisler , Kees Venema

Due to their sessile lifestyle, plants need to efficiently adapt to changing environmental conditions during their life cycle. Nutrient acquisition from the soil has to be able to adapt to considerable fluctuations in concentrations to ensure adequate distribution...

Plant Communication from an Ecological Perspective

František Baluška , Velemir Ninkovic

Since the concept of allelopathy was introduced almost 100 years ago, research has led to an understanding that plants are involved in complex communicative interactions. They use a battery of different signals that convey plant-relevant information within plant...

Ion Channels and Plant Stress Responses

Vadim Demidchik , Frans J.M. Maathuis

Plants live in a constantly changing environment from which they cannot physically escape.Plants therefore need signalling and response mechanisms to adapt to new local conditions. The ef?cacy of such mechanisms underlies the plant performance during stress and...

Integrated G Proteins Signaling in Plants

František Baluška , Alan Jones , Shaul Yalovsky

This volume focuses on the structure, function and regulation of plant signaling G proteins and their function in hormonal pathways, polarity, differentiation, morphogenesis and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Plants are sessile organisms that need to...

Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant Signaling

Luis A. Del Río , Alain Puppo

Oxygen (O ) appeared in significant amounts in the Earth’s atmosphere over 2. 2 2 billion years ago, largely due to the evolution of photosynthesis by cyanobacteria (Halliwell 2006). The O molecule is a free radical, as it has two impaired electrons 2 that have the same...

Plant-Environment Interactions

František Baluška

Our image of plants is changing dramatically away from passive entities merely subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for the accumulation of photosynthate. Plants are revealing themselves to be dynamic and highly sensitive organisms that...

Signaling in Plants

František Baluška , Stefano Mancuso