Overview
- Includes the latest information on Plant Hormones, particularly with reference to such new topics as signal transduction, brassinosteroids, responses to disease, and expansins
- Selected collection of newly written, carefully integrated and illustrated reviews describing our knowledge of plant hormones and the experimental work that is the foundation of this information
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hormone Biosynthesis, Metabolism and its Regulation
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The Final Action of Hormones
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Hormone Signal Transduction
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About this book
Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling the way in which plants grow and develop. While metabolism provides the power and building blocks for plant life, it is the hormones that regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate them to produce the form that we recognize as a plant.
This book is a description of these natural chemicals: how they are synthesized and metabolized, how they act at both the organismal and molecular levels, how we measure them, a description of some of the roles they play in regulating plant growth and development, and the prospects for the genetic engineering of hormone levels or responses in crop plants. This is an updated revision of the third edition of the highly acclaimed text. Thirty-three chapters, including two totally new chapters plus four chapter updates, written by a group of fifty-five international experts, provide the latest information on Plant Hormones, particularly with reference to such new topics as signal transduction, brassinosteroids, responses to disease, and expansins. The book is not a conference proceedings but a selected collection of carefully integrated and illustrated reviews describing our knowledge of plant hormones and the experimental work that is the foundation of this information.
The Revised 3rd Edition adds important information that has emerged since the original publication of the 3rd edition. This includes information on the receptors for auxin, gibberellin, abscisic acid and jasmonates, in addition to new chapters on strigolactones, the branching hormones, and florigen, the flowering hormone.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Hormones
Book Subtitle: Biosynthesis, Signal Transduction, Action!
Editors: Peter J. Davies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2686-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2684-3Published: 02 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2685-0Published: 24 February 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2686-7Published: 06 November 2007
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIV, 802
Additional Information: Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995
Topics: Plant Sciences