Signal Transduction in Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Differential Perception of Environmental Light by Phytochromes

   • Masaki Furuya

   Pages 1-7

3. Functions and Actions of Arabidopsis Phytochromes

   • Karen J. Halliday, Uta M. Praekelt, Michael G. Salter, Garry C. Whitelam

   Pages 9-17

4. Signal Transduction in Photomorphogenesis: Intracellular Partitioning of Factors and Photoreceptors

   • Eberhard Schäfer, Stefan Kircher, Patricia Gil, Klaus Harter, Lana Kim, Frank Wellmer et al.

   Pages 19-24

5. Molecular Genetic Analysis of Constitutively Photomorphogenic Mutants of Arabidopsis

   • Jitendra P. Khurana, Akhilesh K. Tyagi, Paramjit Khurana, Anju Kochhar, Pradeep K. Jain, Aniruddha Raychaudhuri et al.

   Pages 25-37

6. Cytosolic pH as a Secondary Messenger During Light Activation of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase in Mesophyll Cells of C4 Plants

   • Ch. Bhaskar Rao, Nasser Syed, Jhadeswar Murmu, A. S. Raghavendra

   Pages 39-48

7. A Role for Ectoapyrases and Extracellular ATP in Plant Growth and Development

   • Stanley J. Roux, Collin Thomas, Asha Rajagopal

   Pages 49-58

8. Auxin- and GTP-binding Proteins and Protein Kinases from the Protonema of the Moss Funaria hygrometrica

   • M. M. Johri, Kishore C. Panigrahi, J. S. D’Souza, D. Mitra

   Pages 59-70

9. Myoinositol Phosphates as Implicated in Metabolic Signaling and Calcium Homeostasis in Plants

   • Shashiprabha Dasgupta, Dipak Dasgupta, Susweta Biswas, Birendra B. Biswas

   Pages 71-81

10. The Phosphoinositide (PI) Pathway and Signaling in Plants

    • Imara Y. Perera, Ingo Heilmann, Wendy F. Boss

    Pages 83-92

11. Phytochrome Signal Transduction in Cucumber Cotyledons

    • Dolors Vidal, Carmen Bergareche, M. Teresa Gil, Esther Simon

    Pages 93-101

12. Calcium, Calmodulin and Phosphoinositides in Leaflet Movements Mediated by Phytochrome

    • Luisa Moysset, Eva Fernandez, Luis A. Gomez, Esther Simon

    Pages 103-111

13. Calmodulin and Plant Responses to the Environment

    • Ramanjulu Sunkar, Tzahi Arazi, Boaz Kaplan, Dvora Dolev, Hillel Fromm

    Pages 113-123

14. Calcium Signaling: Downstream Components in Plants

    • Girdar K. Paney, Veena, Renu Deswal, Sona Pandey, S. B. Tewari, W. Tyagi et al.

    Pages 125-136

15. Apoplast Calmodulin: The Identification, Functions and Transmembrane Mechanism

    • Daye Sun, Ligeng Ma

    Pages 137-144

16. CDPKs in Plant Signaling Networks

    • Maitrayee Das Gupta, Subho Chaudhuri

    Pages 145-155

17. The Function of the Maize CRINKLY4 Receptor-like Kinase in a Growth Factor Like Signaling System

    • Philip W. Becraft, Meena R. Chandok, Ping Jin, Tao Guo, Yvonne Asuncion-Crabb, Yuan Zhang

    Pages 157-165

18. Novel Calcium/Calmodulin-modulated Proteins

    • B. W. Poovaiah, Wuyi Wang, Tianbao Yang

    Pages 167-176

19. A Novel Ca2+/CaM-regulated Microtubule Motor Protein from Plants: Role in Trichome Morphogenesis and Cell Division

    • A. S. N. Reddy

    Pages 177-192

20. Progress Towards the Identification of Cytokinin Receptors

    • Richard Hooley

    Pages 193-199

An understanding of the mechanisms by which plants perceive environmental cues, both physical and chemical, and transduce the signals that influence specific expression of genes, is an area of intensive scientific research. With the completion of the genome sequence of Arabidopsis it is understood now that a larger number of genes encode for proteins involved in signalling cascades and transcription factors. In this volume, different chapters deal with plant receptors, second messengers like calcium ions, phosphoinositides, salicylic acid and nitrous oxide, calcium binding proteins and kinases. In addition to dealing with the response of plants to light, hormones, pathogens, heat, etc. on cellular activity, work currently going on in apoptosis, cell division, and plastid gene expression is also covered in this book.

• ATP
• Activation
• Calcium
• Chloroplast
• Cytokinin
• Cytosol
• Expression
• Pathogen
• Phytochrome
• cell division
• influence
• photosynthesis
• plant pathogens
• plasma membrane
• transcription

• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

  S. K. Sopory, S. C. Maheshwari

• Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany

  Ralf Oelmüller

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