Plant Growth and Development
Hormones and Environment
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This book provides current information on synthesis of plant hormones, how their concentrations are regulated, and how they modulate various plant processes. It details how plants sense and tolerate such factors as drought, salinity, and cold temperature, factors that limit plant productivity on earth. It also explains how plants sense two other environmental signals, light and gravity, and modify their developmental patterns in response to those signals. This book takes the reader from basic concepts to the most up-to-date thinking on these topics.
Key Features
@bul:* Provides clear synthesis and review of hormonal and environmental regulation of plant growth and development
* Contains more than 600 illustrations
supplementary information on techniques and/or related topics of interest
* Single-authored text provides uniformity of presentation and integration of the subject matter
* References listed alphabetically in each section
Readership
Advanced undergraduates and graduate students, faculty, and researchers in plant sciences, forestry, agricultural sciences, botany, plant developmental biology, plant physiology, and ecology.
Table of Contents
- Preface
SECTION I SOME SPECIAL ASPECTS OF PLANT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 1 Special Features of Plant Development
CHAPTER 2 Cell Wall, Cell Division, and Cell Growth
CHAPTER 3 Embryogenesis
CHAPTER 4 Determination, Differentiation, and Dedifferentiation in Plants
APPENDIX 1 Molecular and Genetic Tools for Study of Plant Development
SECTION II STRUCTURE AND METABOLISM OF PLANT HORMONES
CHAPTER 5 General Features of Plant Hormones, Their Analysis, and Quantitation
CHAPTER 6 Auxins
CHAPTER 7 Gibberellins
CHAPTER 8 Cytokinins
CHAPTER 9 Brassinosteroids
CHAPTER 10 Abscisic Acid
CHAPTER 11 Ethylene
CHAPTER 12 Jasmonates and Other Defense-Related Compounds
APPENDIX 2 Microbial Synthesis of Plant Hormones
SECTION III HORMONAL REGULATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES
CHAPTER 13 Uptake and Transport of Hormones
CHAPTER 14 Apical Dominance and Some Other Phenomena Illustrating Correlative Effects of Hormones
CHAPTER 15 Hormonal Regulation of Cell Division and Cell Growth
CHAPTER 16 Abscisic Acid and Stress Tolerance in Plants
CHAPTER 17 Fruit Development and Ripening
CHAPTER 18 Seed Development and Maturation
CHAPTER 19 Seed Germination, Mobilization of Food Reserves, and Seed Dormancy
CHAPTER 20 Vegetative Storage Proteins, Tuberization, Senescence, and Abscission
APPENDIX 3 Seed Food Reserves and Their Accumulation
SECTION IV MOLECULAR BASIS OF HORMONE ACTION
CHAPTER 21 Ethylene Signal Perception And Transduction
CHAPTER 22 Auxin Signal Perception and Transduction
CHAPTER 23 Abscisic Acid Signal Perception and Transduction
CHAPTER 24 Molecular Biology o f Action of Gibberellins, Cytokinins, Brassinosteroids, and Jasmonates
CHAPTER 25 Signal Transduction in Plants
APPENDIX 4 Hormone-Binding Assays and Protein Purification
SECTION V ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF PLANT GROWTH
CHAPTER 26 Photoperception and Signaling
CHAPTER 27 Tropic and Nontropic Responses to
Environmental Signals
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 772
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2002
- Published: July 23, 2002
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080514031
About the Author
Lalit Srivastava
Affiliations and Expertise
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada