Plant Tropisms
1. Auflage Oktober 2007
240 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Tropisms, the defined vectorial stimuli, such as gravity, light, touch, humidity gradients, ions, oxygen, and temperature, which provide guidance for plant organ growth, is a rapidly growing and changing field. The last few years have witnessed a true renaissance in the analysis of tropisms. As such the conception of tropisms has changed from being seen as a group of simple laboratory curiosities to their recognition as important tools/phenotypes with which to decipher basic cell biological processes that are essential to plant growth and development. Plant Tropisms will provide a comprehensive, yet integrated volume of the current state of knowledge on the molecular and cell biological processes that govern plant tropisms.
Preface.
1. Mechanisms of Gravity Perception in Higher Plants: Aline H.
Valster and Elison B. Blancaflor.
2. Signal Transduction in Gravitropism: Benjamin R. Harrison,
Miyo T. Morita, Patrick H. Masson and Masao Tasaka.
3. Auxin Transport and the Integration of Gravitropic Growth:
Gloria K. Muday and Abidur Rahman.
4. Phototropism and its Relationship to Gravitropism: Jack L.
Mullen and John Z. Kiss.
5. Touch Sensing and Thigmotropism: Gabriele B. Monshausen,
Sarah J. Swanson and Simon Gilroy.
6. Other Tropisms and their Relationship to Gravitropism: Gladys
I. Cassab.
7. Single-Cell Gravitropism and Gravitaxis: Markus Braun and
Ruth Hemmersbach.
8. Space-Based Research on Plant Tropisms: Melanie J. Correll
and John Z. Kiss.
9. Plan(t)s for Space Exploration: Christopher S. Brown, Heike
Winter Sederoff, Eric Davies, Robert J. Ferl, and Bratislav
Stankovic
Patrick Masson, Ph.D., is Professor of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin.