Phytohormones in Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture

by Machackova, Ivana; Romanov, Georgy A.

• ISBN13: 9781402017230
• ISBN10: 1402017235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The book brings the up-to-date information about some aspects of regulation of flowering, especially about the role of gibberellins; about agricultural aspects of cytokinin functioning, namely their role in yield formation in cereals; about some signalling systems involved in cytokinin, auxin and ethylene signalling. It contains a review on auxin transport and on transgenic plants with modified levels of auxins and several papers concerning hormones and stress or hormones and cellular structures. As the workshop was held in Moscow, the book represents also a good source of information about research in Russia in the field of phytohormones.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Colour plates
Hormonal regulation of plant development in the studies by M. Kh. Chailakhyan In dedication of the 100[superscript th] anniversary of his birth	p. 3
The plant hormones: From original concepts to a molecular flowering	p. 9
Three roles for gibberellin in flowering	p. 31
The role of gibberellin-regulated gene expression during anther and early flower development in tomato	p. 41
Involvement of gibberellins in development and senescence of rose flowers	p. 49
Potato tuberization: evidence for a SD-dependent and a gibberellin-dependent pathway of induction	p. 57
Investigation on the chemical nature of flower-inducing factor(s) in short-day plant Pharbitis nil	p. 67
Occurrence and putative role of melatonin in plants	p. 79
Informational signalling in stem apical meristems of plants during transition to flowering	p. 89
Cytokinin as a regulatory factor for yield and biomass distribution in crop plants	p. 97
Exploitation of mechanisms regulating cytokinin levels to improve cereals	p. 109
Primary alcohols, substrates for phospholipase D-catalyzed transphosphatidylation, suppress the cytokinin action	p. 129
Physiological and molecular genetic aspects of auxin transport: recent developments	p. 143
Role of calcium ions in plant growth and mechanisms of IAA action	p. 157
Transgenic plants of modified auxin status and enhanced productivity	p. 171
Cell wall extensibility changes by hormonal and non-hormonal factors	p. 185
Hormonal regulation of Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) and inter-organ stress signal transduction	p. 195
Monomeric G-proteins and MAP kinases are involved in ethylene signal transduction	p. 205
Rosette leaf senescence in wild type and ethylene-insensitive mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana during inflorescence and fruit development	p. 217
Involvement of hormones in the increase in plant productivity induced by localised fertilizer placement	p. 229
Distribution of phytohormones among different plant organs determines the development of competitive sinks in radish plants	p. 237
Hormonal regulation of somatic embryogenesis in maize	p. 243
Phytohormones and cytoskeleton	p. 249
Regulation of male gametophyte development in Angiosperma: the role of intracellular pH and transmembrane chloride transport	p. 255
Activity of racemase and appearance of N-malonyl-D-tryptophan during osmotic stress and drought conditions	p. 259
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