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Air Pollutants and the Leaf Cuticle

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Kevin E. Percy

    1. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service — Maritimes Region, Fredericton, Canada

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  2. J. Neil Cape

    1. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian, UK

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  3. Richard Jagels

    1. Department of Forest Ecosystem Science, University of Maine, Orono, USA

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  4. Caroline J. Simpson

    1. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service — Maritimes Region, Fredericton, Canada

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries G: (ASIG, volume 36)

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Table of contents (41 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Reviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Plant Cuticles: Physicochemical Characteristics and Biosynthesis

      • Peter J. Holloway
      Pages 1-13

    3. Modelling Pollutant Deposition to Vegetation: Scaling Down from the Canopy to the Biochemical Level

      • George E. Taylor Jr., John V. H. Constable
      Pages 15-37

    4. Air Pollutants and Plant Cuticles: Mechanisms of Gas and Water Transport, and Effects on Water Permeability

      • Gerhard Kerstiens
      Pages 39-53

    5. Ion Transport Across Leaf Cuticles: Concepts and Mechanisms

      • Melvin T. Tyree
      Pages 55-65

    6. Effects of Air Pollutants on Epicuticular Wax Chemical Composition

      • K. E. Percy, C. J. McQuattie, J. A. Rebbeck
      Pages 67-79

    7. Effects of Air Pollutants on Epicuticular Wax Structure

      • Satu Huttunen
      Pages 81-96

    8. Leaf Wettability as a Measure of Air Pollution Effects

      • Richard Jagels
      Pages 97-105

    9. Air Pollutants and the Cuticle: Implications for Plant Physiology

      • Markus Riederer, Reinhard Jetter, Claus Markstädter, Lukas Schreiber
      Pages 107-111

    10. Cuticular Characteristics in the Detection of Plant Stress Due to Air Pollution — New Problems in the Use of these Cuticular Characteristics

      • Jean-Pierre Garrec
      Pages 113-122

    11. Evaluation of Pollutant Critical Levels from Leaf Surface Characteristics

      • J Neil Cape
      Pages 123-138

    12. New Analytical Techniques for Cuticle Chemical Analysis

      • Hans-Rolf Schulten
      Pages 139-147

    13. Leaf Cuticles as Mediators of Environmental Influences: New Developments in the Use of Isolated Cuticles

      • Tim Scherbatskoy
      Pages 149-163

  3. New Methods and Contributions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. The Effect of the Environment on the Structure, Quantity and Composition of Spruce Needle Wax

      • M. S. Günthardt-Goerg
      Pages 165-174

    3. Effect of Ozone and Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Cuticular Membrane Ultrastructure of Yellow Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)

      • Carolyn J. McQuattie, Joanne Rebbeck
      Pages 175-182

    4. Spatial Distribution of Sulphate Uptake by Wind-Damaged Beech Leaves

      • C. E. Jeffree, J. Grace, S. P. Hoad
      Pages 183-193

    5. Effects of UV-B Radiation on Wax Biosynthesis

      • Jeremy Barnes, Nigel Paul, Kevin Percy, Pam Broadbent, Chris McLaughlin, Phil Mullineaux et al.
      Pages 195-204

    6. Effects of Acid Rain and Surfactant Pollution on the Foliar Structure of Some Tree Species

      • Paolo Raddi, Salvatore Moricca, Elena Paoletti
      Pages 205-216
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Plant leaves are covered by a thin, lipoidal, non-living membrane called the cuticle. Forming the interface between plants and the atmospheric environment, it presents an effective barrier to pollutant entry.
The book provides a comprehensive review of air pollutant effects on the cuticle and covers the following thematic areas: - Cuticular physicochemical characteristics, physiological, regulatory, and protective roles. - Effects, mechanisms, and consequences of air pollutant interaction with leaf cuticles. - Non-anthropogenic and environmental influences on the cuticle and potential of the cuticle for biomonitoring and critical levels mapping. - New developments in experimental methodology and analytical techniques.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service — Maritimes Region, Fredericton, Canada

    Kevin E. Percy, Caroline J. Simpson

  • Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian, UK

    J. Neil Cape

  • Department of Forest Ecosystem Science, University of Maine, Orono, USA

    Richard Jagels

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