Low-Oxygen Stress in Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Sensing and Signalling Hypoxic Stress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Oxygen Perception in Plants

      • Monika Kosmacz, Daan A. Weits

      Pages 3-17

   3. Oxidative Stress Components Explored in Anoxic and Hypoxic Global Gene Expression Data

      • Olga B. Blokhina, Petri Törönen, Kurt V. Fagerstedt

      Pages 19-39

   4. Low Oxygen Stress, Nonsymbiotic Hemoglobins, NO, and Programmed Cell Death

      • Abir U. Igamberdiev, Claudio Stasolla, Robert D. Hill

      Pages 41-58

   5. Intracellular pH Regulation of Plant Cells Under Anaerobic Conditions

      • Kimiharu Ishizawa

      Pages 59-74

3. Molecular Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Transcriptional Regulation Under Low Oxygen Stress in Plants

      • Beatrice Giuntoli, Pierdomenico Perata

      Pages 77-93

   3. Selective mRNA Translation Tailors Low Oxygen Energetics

      • Reed Sorenson, Julia Bailey-Serres

      Pages 95-115

   4. Role of Ethylene and Other Plant Hormones in Orchestrating the Responses to Low Oxygen Conditions

      • Bianka Steffens, Margret Sauter

      Pages 117-132

4. Metabolic Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Insights into Algal Fermentation

      • Wenqiang Yang, Claudia Catalanotti, Matthew C. Posewitz, Jean Alric, Arthur R. Grossman

      Pages 135-163

   3. Hypoxic Energy Metabolism and PPi as an Alternative Energy Currency

      • Angelika Mustroph, Natalia Hess, Rashmi Sasidharan

      Pages 165-184

   4. Oxygen Consumption Under Hypoxic Conditions

      • Carola Päpke, Santiago Ramirez-Aguilar, Carla Antonio

      Pages 185-208

   5. Adaptations of Nitrogen Metabolism to Oxygen Deprivation in Plants

      • Anis M. Limami

      Pages 209-221

   6. Adaptation of Storage Metabolism to Oxygen Deprivation

      • Peter Geigenberger

      Pages 223-244

5. Morphological Adaptations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Aerenchyma Formation in Plants

      • Hirokazu Takahashi, Takaki Yamauchi, Timothy David Colmer, Mikio Nakazono

      Pages 247-265

   3. Plant Internal Oxygen Transport (Diffusion and Convection) and Measuring and Modelling Oxygen Gradients

      • W. Armstrong, J. Armstrong

      Pages 267-297

   4. Biogenesis of Adventitious Roots and Their Involvement in the Adaptation to Oxygen Limitations

      • Margret Sauter, Bianka Steffens

      Pages 299-312

During the last ten years, knowledge about the multitude of adaptive responses of plants to low oxygen stress has grown immensely. The oxygen sensor mechanism has been discovered, the knowledge about the interaction network of gene expression is expanding and metabolic adaptations have been described in detail. Furthermore, morphological changes were investigated and the regulative mechanisms triggered by plant hormones or reactive oxygen species have been revealed. This book provides a broad overview of all these aspects of low oxygen stress in plants. It integrates knowledge from different disciplines such as molecular biology, biochemistry, ecophysiology and agricultural / horticultural sciences to comprehensively describe how plants cope with low oxygen stress and discuss its ecological and agronomical consequences. This book is written for plant scientists, biochemists and scientists in agriculture and ecophysiology.

• abiotic stress
• ecophysiological adaptions
• hypoxia
• morphological adaptions
• oxygen sensing
• plant metabolism

• RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  Joost T. van Dongen

• Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna, Pisa, Italy

  Francesco Licausi

Joost van Dongen studied Plant Physiology and Plant Biochemistry at Utrecht University and at Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands. He received his PhD at the Utrecht University in 2001 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany, from 2002 to 2006. Since 2006, he has served as an independent research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam. His research group studies plant molecular and biochemical responses to changes in oxygen availability and the impact of beneficial root bacteria on plant primary metabolism and growth.

Francesco Licausi studied Biotechnology at the University of Parma and Plant and Microbial Biotechnology at the University of Pisa in Italy. In 2010, he completed his Ph.D. at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy) and Potsdam University (Germany), defending a thesis on the characterization of members of the Ethylene ResponsiveTranscription Factor Family in response to low oxygen in plants. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam (Germany) until April 2011 before moving back to Italy to serve as Assistant Professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. The research topics studied in Francesco’s group deal with the regulation of the molecular response to reduced oxygen availability in plants and the regulation of biosynthetic pathways involved in secondary metabolite production.

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