Plant Hormones

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. The Plant Hormones: Their Nature, Occurrence, and Functions

   • Peter J. Davies

   Pages 1-12

3. The Plant Hormone Concept:Concentration, Sensitivity and Transport

   • Peter J. Davies

   Pages 13-38

4. Auxin Biosynthesis and Metabolism

   • Robert S. Bandurski, Jerry D. Cohen, Janet Pernise Slovin, Dennis M. Reinecke

   Pages 39-65

5. The Biosynthesis and Metabolism of Gibberellins in Higher Plants

   • Valerie M. Sponsel

   Pages 66-97

6. Cytokinin Biosynthesis and Metabolism

   • Brian A. McGaw, Lindsay R. Burch

   Pages 98-117

7. Biosynthesis and Metabolism of Ethylene

   • Thomas A. McKeon, Juan C. Fernández-Maculet, Shang-Fa Yang

   Pages 118-139

8. Abscisic Acid Biosynthesis and Metabolism

   • Daniel C. Walton, Li Yi

   Pages 140-157

9. Polyamines as Endogenous Growth Regulators

   • Arthur W. Galston, Ravindar Kaur-Sawhney

   Pages 158-178

10. Jasmonates, Salicylic acid and Brassinosteroids

    • Paul E. Staswick, Ilya Raskin, Richard N. Arteca

    Pages 179-213

11. Auxin and Cell Elongation

    • Robert E. Cleland

    Pages 214-227

12. The Control of Gene Expression by Auxin

    • Gretchen Hagen

    Pages 228-245

13. Gibberellin Action in Germinated Cereal Grains

    • John V. Jacobsen, Frank Gubler, Peter M. Chandler

    Pages 246-271

14. Hormone Binding and Signal Transduction

    • Kees R. Libbenga, Albert M. Mennes

    Pages 272-297

15. Calcium and Plant Hormone Action

    • Paul C. Bethke, Simon Gilroy, Russell L. Jones

    Pages 298-317

16. Genes Specifying Auxin and Cytokinin Biosynthesis in Prokaryotes

    • Roy O. Morris

    Pages 318-339

17. Transgenic Plants in Hormone Biology

    • Harry J. Klee, Michael B. Lanahan

    Pages 340-353

18. Molecular Approaches to the Study of the Mechanism of Action of Auxins

    • Jeff Schell, Klaus Palme, Rick Walden

    Pages 354-371

19. Ethylene Genes and Fruit Ripening

    • Steve Picton, Julie E. Gray, Don Grierson

    Pages 372-394

20. The Role of Hormones in Gene Activation in Response to Wounding

    • Hugo Peña-Cortés, Lothar Willmitzer

    Pages 395-414

Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling the way in which plants growand develop. Whilemetabolism providesthepowerand buildingblocks for plant life, it is the hormones that regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate these parts to produce the form that we recognize as a plant. In addition, theyplayacontrolling role inthe processes of reproduction. This book is a description ofthese natural chemicals: how they are synthesizedand metabolized; howthey work; whatwe knowoftheir molecular biology; how we measure them; and a description ofsome ofthe roles they play in regulating plant growth and development. Emphasis has also been placed on the new findings on plant hormones deriving from the expanding use ofmolecular biology as a tool to understand these fascinating regulatory molecules. Even at the present time, when the role of genes in regulating all aspects of growth and development is considered of prime importance, it is still clear that the path of development is nonetheless very much under hormonal control, either via changes in hormone levels in response to changes in gene transcription, or with the hormones themselves as regulators ofgene transcription. This is not a conference proceedings, but a selected collection ofnewly written, integrated, illustrated reviews describing our knowledge of plant hormones, and the experimental work that is the foundation of this knowledge.

• biochemistry
• biology
• Calcium
• development
• gene expression
• growth
• metabolism
• molecular aspects
• molecular biology
• physiology
• plant growth
• plants
• synthesis
• transcription
• transgenic plants

`... it is relatively easy to read, gives the reader much multidisciplinary data and...thousands of bibliograhpic references.'
Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 22:2 (2000)

• Section of Plant Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  Peter J. Davies

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