The Plant Cytoskeleton: a Key Tool for Agro-Biotechnology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Cytoskeleton Fundamentals

   1. Plant Gamma-Tusc-Like Components: Their Role In Microtubule Nucleation

      • Virginie Seltzer, Tomasz Pawlowski, Jean-Luc Evrard, Jean Canaday, Etienne Herzog, Anne-Catherine Schmit

      Pages 3-22

   2. Gamma-Tubulins And Their Functions In Plant Cells

      • Pavla Binarova, Vera Cenklova, Zaneta Pochylova, Eduarda Draberova, Pavel Draber

      Pages 23-43

   3. Coiled-Coil- And Intermediate Filament-Proteins In The Plant Nucleoskeleton

      • Susana Moreno DÍaz De La Espina, Consuelo De La Torre

      Pages 45-69

3. Cytoskeleton And Development

   1. Microtubules And The Control Of Cell Elongation In Arabidopsis Roots

      • Jean-Pierre Verbelen, Jie Le, Kris Vissenberg, Tinne De Cnodder, Filip Vandenbussche, Keiko Sugimoto et al.

      Pages 73-90

   2. Regulation Of Root Hair Tip Growth: Can Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases Be Taken Into Account?

      • Miroslav OveČka, Irene K. Lichtscheidl, FrantiŠek BaluŠka, Jozef Šamaj, Dieter Volkmann, Heribert Hirt

      Pages 91-128

   3. Cytoskeletal Changes During Spermatogenesis In Chara Antheridia

      • Qiaojun Jin, Karl H. Hasenstein*

      Pages 129-142

4. Cytoskeleton And Signalling

   1. Plant Tubulin Phosphorylation And Its Role In Cell Cycle Progression

      • Yaroslav B. Blume, Clive W. Lloyd, Alla I. Yemets

      Pages 145-159

   2. Plant Myosins: Do They Have Roles In Gravi- And Mechanosensing?

      • Dieter Volkmann, FrantiŠek BaluŠka*

      Pages 161-172

   3. The Role Of The Cytoskeleton In Plant Cell Gravisensitivity

      • Elizabeth L. Kordyum, Galina V. Shevchenko, Iana M. Kalinina, Orest T. Demkiv, Yaroslava D. Khorkavtsiv

      Pages 173-196

5. Genomics Of The Cytoskeleton

   1. The Importance Of Being An Intron, By Wild....Type Tubulin Genes

      • Diego Breviario, Laura Morello, Antonella Manca, Silvia GianÌ

      Pages 199-218

   2. The Transcriptome Of The Tubulin Gene Family In Plants

      • Volodymyr V. Radchuk

      Pages 219-241

   3. Array Technology For Studying Maize Tubulin

      • Daniel Patrick Griffin, Susan M. Wick

      Pages 243-264

6. Cytoskeleton Proteomics

   1. The Microtubule Proteome: A Role in Regulating Protein Synthesis and Import Into Organelles?

      • Teagen D. Quilichini, Douglas G. Muench*

      Pages 267-281

   2. Qualitative And Quantitative Analyses Of ß-Tubulin Cva (C-Terminal Variable Acidic Amino Acid Region) By Maldi-Tof Mass-Spectrometry

      • Shoji Okamura, Kazuhiro Kudo, Tsuneo Imanaka

      Pages 283-301

7. Structural Biology And Bioinformatics For Cytoskeleton Research

   1. Tubulin Isotypes And Their Role In Microtubule Dynamic Instability, Implications For Modeling And Rational Design Of Inhibitors

      • Jack Tuszynski, Torin Huzil, Eric Carpenter, Richard LudeÑa

      Pages 305-326

   2. Dinitroaniline Interactions with Tubulin: Genetic and Computational Approaches to Define the Mechanisms of Action and Resistance

      • Naomi Morrissette, David Sept

      Pages 327-349

   3. Domain Complexity Of Plant Kinesins

      • Jennelle L. Malcos, Richard J. Cyr

      Pages 351-372

   4. Bioinformatic Search For Plant Homologues Of Animal Structural Maps In The Arabidopsis Thaliana Genome

      • Pavel A. Karpov, Yaroslav B. Blume B. Blume

      Pages 373-394

8. Structural Biology And Bioinformatics For Cytoskeleton Research

   1. Spatial Distribution Of Tubulin Mutations Conferring Resistance To Antimicrotubular Compounds

      • Alexey Y. Nyporko, Yaroslav B. Blume

      Pages 397-417

Essential processes in biology such as cell and nuclear division, development, intracellular transport and physiological response, rely on the perception of environmental and intracellular signals and their transduction to subcellular targets. The mechanisms by which these signals are received by cells and transduced towards the proper targets by cytoskeletal components constitute one of the most important and rapidly developing areas in modern plant biology. In addition, fundamentally important responses of plants to biotic and abiotic factors also involve signalling to and through the cytoskeleton, which helps explain the current interest of biotechnology in this field of fundamental research. Manipulation of cytoskeletal components, the microtubules and microfilaments, had, until recently, not been a priority issue for plant biotechnology. However, given the fundamental role of the cytoskeleton during plant growth and development, the potential for biotechnological applications is immense. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop, “The Plant Cytoskeleton: Genomic and Bioinformatic Tools for Biotechnology and Agriculture” was held in Yalta, Ukraine, from September 19 to 23, 2006 – which continued the tradition of the first two International Symposia “Plant Cytoskeleton: Molecular Keys for Biotechnology” (Yalta, Ukraine, 1998) and “The Plant Cytoskeleton: functional diversity and biotechnological implications” (Kiev, Ukraine, 2002).

• Arabidopsis thaliana
• Elongation
• Mutation
• Proteomics
• Selectable Marker
• bioinformatics
• biotechnology
• cell division
• genes
• molecular biology
• regulation

• Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

  Yaroslav B. Blume

• Clemson University, Clemson, USA

  W. Vance Baird

• Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

  Alla I. Yemets

• CNR, Milano, Italy

  Diego Breviario

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