Membrane Transport in Plants
Description
Key Features
- Encompasses various aspects of the GMO debate (its historical background, current status, recent research outcomes, potential future developments)
- Written by highly competent authors from all continents
- Based on facts and written in a dispassionate and non-polemical tone
Readership
High School teachers; University lecturers and professors; researchers (primarily in plant field); governmental (or supra governmental like European Commission) or International organization (like FAO, etc.) officers involved in food or environmental safety or in biotechnology regulation; science journalists; farmer organizations (like NFU in the UK)
Table of Contents
1. The ABC of ABC Transporters
Baptiste Pierman, Marc Boutry and François Lefèvre
2. Plant Aquaporins
Lionel Verdoucq and Christophe Maurel
3. Heavy Metal Pumps in Plants: Structure, Function and Origin
Jeppe Thulin Østerberg and Michael Palmgren
4. Metal Transport in the Developing Plant Seed
Seckin Eroglu
5. Transporters and Mechanisms of Hormone Transport in Arabidopsis
Rashed Abualia, Eva Benkova and Benoît Lacombe
6. Root Nitrate Uptake
Laurence Lejay and Alain Gojon
7. The Regulation of Ion Channels and Transporters in the Guard Cell
Brice Roux and Nathalie Leonhardt
8. The Pollen Plasma Membrane Permeome Converts Transmembrane Ion Transport Into Speed
Heidi Pertl-Obermeyer, Peter Lackner, John W.C. Dunlop and Gerhard Obermeyer
9. Xylem Ion Loading and Its Implication for Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Tetsuya Ishikawa, Tracey A. Cuin, Nadia Bazihizina and Sergey Shabala
10. The Role of Plant Transporters in Mycorrhizal Symbioses
Carmen Guerrero-Galán, Gabriella Houdinet, Monica Calvo-Polanco, Katia E. Bonaldi, Kevin Garcia and Sabine Dagmar Zimmermann
Product details
- No. of pages: 356
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: October 31, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128096222
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128093900