Biocommunication of Plants

1. Front Matter

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2. Key Levels of Biocommunication in Plants

   • Witzany Guenther

   Pages 1-9

3. Information, Noise and Communication: Thresholds as Controlling Elements in Development

   • Anthony Trewavas

   Pages 11-35

4. Plant Hormones and Metabolites as Universal Vocabulary in Plant Defense Signaling

   • Dirk Balmer, Brigitte Mauch-Mani

   Pages 37-50

5. Gravity Sensing, Interpretation, and Response

   • Miyo Terao Moirta, Moritaka Nakamura, Masao Tasaka

   Pages 51-66

6. Jasmonates in Plant Defense Responses

   • E. Wassim Chehab, Janet Braam

   Pages 67-88

7. Multitude of Long-Distance Signal Molecules Acting Via Phloem

   • Sylvie Dinant, Paula Suárez-López

   Pages 89-121

8. Intercellular Signaling During Floral Development

   • Balaji Enugutti, Kay Schneitz

   Pages 123-137

9. Plant Cell Wall Signaling in the Interaction with Plant-Parasitic Nematodes

   • Krzysztof Wieczorek, Georg J. Seifert

   Pages 139-155

10. Plant Root Interactions

    • Angela Hodge

    Pages 157-169

11. Control of Programmed Cell Death During Plant Reproductive Development

    • Yadira Olvera-Carrillo, Yuliya Salanenka, Moritz K. Nowack

    Pages 171-196

12. Induction and Suppression of Herbivore-Induced Indirect Defenses

    • Juan M. Alba, Silke Allmann, Joris J. Glas, Bernardus C. J. Schimmel, Eleni A. Spyropoulou, Marije Stoops et al.

    Pages 197-212

13. Nematode Communication with Plants is Surprisingly Complex and Multidimensional

    • David Mc. K. Bird, Peter M. DiGennaro

    Pages 213-230

14. Virus Operation Control Centers

    • Ulrich Melcher

    Pages 231-254

15. Molecular Signals and Receptors: Communication Between Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria and Their Plant Hosts

    • Ann M. Hirsch, Nancy A. Fujishige

    Pages 255-280

16. Recent Trends in the Olfactory Responses of Insect Natural Enemies to Plant Volatiles

    • Gadi V. P. Reddy

    Pages 281-301

17. Plant Resistance to Insect Herbivory

    • Jurgen Engelberth

    Pages 303-326

18. Bacterial Volatiles Mediating Information Between Bacteria and Plants

    • Katrin Wenke, Teresa Weise, Rene Warnke, Claudio Valverde, Dierk Wanke, Marco Kai et al.

    Pages 327-347

19. Infection of Plants by the Human Pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium: Challenges and New Insights

    • Adam Schikora, Ana Victoria Garcia, Amélie Charrier, Heribert Hirt

    Pages 349-360

20. Coadaptationary Aspects of the Underground Communication Between Plants and Other Organisms

    • Akifumi Sugiyama, Daniel K. Manter, Jorge M. Vivanco

    Pages 361-375

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 measures to control certain environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’. They process and evaluate information and then modify their behaviour accordingly. These highly diverse competences are made possible by parallel sign(alling)-mediated communication processes within the plant body (intraorganismic), between the same, related and different species (interorganismic), and between plants and non-plant organisms (transorganismic). Intraorganismic communication involves sign-mediated interactions within cells (intracellular) and between cells (intercellular). This is crucial in coordinating growth and development, shape and dynamics. Such communication must function both on the local level and between widely separated plant parts. This allows plants to coordinate appropriate response behaviours in a differentiated manner, depending on their current developmental status and physiological influences. Lastly, this volume documents how plant ecosphere inhabitants communicate with each other to coordinate their behavioural patterns, as well as the role of viruses in these highly dynamic interactional networks.

• communication, interorganismic
• communication, intraorganismic
• plants
• signaling, plants

• Telos - Philosophische Praxis, Bürmoos, Austria

  Günther Witzany

• Inst. Zelluläre und Molekulare, Botanik (IZMB), Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  František Baluška

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