Biochemical and Cellular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. High Temperature Stress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The heat stress response as part of the plant stress network: An overview with six tables

      • Lutz Nover

      Pages 3-45

   3. Developmental regulation and enhancement of heat shock gene expression

      • F. Schöffl, E. Kloske, A. Wagner, K. Severin, G. Schröder

      Pages 47-59

   4. Normal Cellular Protein Synthesis and Heat Shock

      • Mark R. Brodl, Jacqueline D. Campbell, Kent K. Grindstaff, Lora Fielding

      Pages 61-76

   5. Thermal Acclimation and Heat Stress Response of Synechocystis PCC6803: The Possible Role of Thylakoid Physical State, Lipid Saturation and Molecular Chaperones

      • László Vigh, Zsolt Török, Eszter Kovács, Attila Glatz, Nándor Balogh, Ibolya Horváth

      Pages 77-95

   6. Studies of a Chloroplast-Localized Small Heat Shock Protein in Arabidopsis

      • Katherine W. Osteryoung, Brian Pipes, Nadja Wehmeyer, Elizabeth Vierling

      Pages 97-113

   7. The Low Molecular Weight Heat Shock Proteins of Soybean Seedlings

      • Joe L. Key, Yuh-Ru Julie Lee, Virginia Goekjian, Ronald T. Nagao

      Pages 115-140

   8. Class I low molecular weight heat shock proteins in plants: immunological study and thermoprotection against heat denaturation of soluble proteins

      • Chu-Yung Lin, Tsung-Luo Jinn, Ming-Hsiun Hsieh, Yih-Ming Chen

      Pages 141-155

   9. Genetic and Molecular Evidences of the Regulation of Gene Expression during Heat Shock in Plants

      • N. Marmiroli, E. Maestri, V. Terzi, M. Gulli, A. Pavesi, G. Raho et al.

      Pages 157-190

   10. Integration of Acquired Thermotolerance within the Developmental Program of Seed Reserve Mobilization

       • John J. Burke

       Pages 191-200

   11. Cross Protection of One Stress by Another: Strategies in Postharvest Fruit Storage

       • Susan Lurie, Joshua D. Klein, Elazar Fallik

       Pages 201-212

   12. Photosynthesis, Epicuticular Wax and Lipid Changes In Cowpea Cultivars Grown Under Hyperthermic Conditions

       • Henry Daniell, Guda Chittibabu, Narendra K. Singh, John D. Weete, Joe H. Cherry

       Pages 213-227

   13. Altered Gene Expression in Thermoadapted Cultured Cells of Cowpea

       • Joe H. Cherry, Randall R. Mayer, Kathleen Heuss-LaRosa, P. Maheshwara Reddy, Narendra K. Singh

       Pages 229-242

3. Drought Stress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Cloning of a Dna Fragment Encoding γ-Glutamyl Kinase and γ-Glutamyl Phosphate Reductase from a Tomato cDNA Library

      • Mario G. García-Ríos, Laszlo N. Csonka, Ray A. Bressan, P. Christopher LaRosa, José Hanquier

      Pages 245-254

   3. Regulation of Gene Expression in Response to Drought and Osmotic Shock

      • Stefania Grillo, Antonello Costa, Marina Tucci, Antonella Leone

      Pages 255-272

   4. Gene Expression during Water Stress

      • Dorothea Bartels, Don Nelson, Pekka Heino, Detlef Michel, Antonella Furini, Giovanni Bernacchia et al.

      Pages 273-278

   5. Molecular Genetic Approaches to Improving Heat and Drought Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants

      • Henry T. Nguyen, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi

      Pages 279-289

   6. Evolution and Metabolic Engineering of Osmoprotectant Accumulation in Higher Plants

      • Andrew D. Hanson, Michael Burnet

      Pages 291-302

Environmental stresses, such as high and low temperature, salinity, and drought, represent limiting factors to agricultural productivity worldwide. Their impact is not only on crops that are presently being cultivated, but they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants into noncultivated areas. The book describes the cellular, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms in plants that regulate tolerance to stresses. Also discussed are prospects of engineering stress-tolerant plants through the modification of germplasm.

• Biotecchnologie
• Landwirtschaft
• Pflanzen
• Stress
• agriculture
• biotechnology
• cellular mechanisms
• environment
• molecular mechanisms
• plants
• temperature

• Department of Botany and Microbiology, Auburn University, Auburn, USA

  Joe H. Cherry

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