Biochemical and Cellular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The heat stress response as part of the plant stress network: An overview with six tables....Pages 3-45
Developmental regulation and enhancement of heat shock gene expression....Pages 47-59
Normal Cellular Protein Synthesis and Heat Shock....Pages 61-76
Thermal Acclimation and Heat Stress Response of Synechocystis PCC6803: The Possible Role of Thylakoid Physical State, Lipid Saturation and Molecular Chaperones....Pages 77-95
Studies of a Chloroplast-Localized Small Heat Shock Protein in Arabidopsis ....Pages 97-113
The Low Molecular Weight Heat Shock Proteins of Soybean Seedlings....Pages 115-140
Class I low molecular weight heat shock proteins in plants: immunological study and thermoprotection against heat denaturation of soluble proteins....Pages 141-155
Genetic and Molecular Evidences of the Regulation of Gene Expression during Heat Shock in Plants....Pages 157-190
Integration of Acquired Thermotolerance within the Developmental Program of Seed Reserve Mobilization....Pages 191-200
Cross Protection of One Stress by Another: Strategies in Postharvest Fruit Storage....Pages 201-212
Photosynthesis, Epicuticular Wax and Lipid Changes In Cowpea Cultivars Grown Under Hyperthermic Conditions....Pages 213-227
Altered Gene Expression in Thermoadapted Cultured Cells of Cowpea....Pages 229-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Cloning of a Dna Fragment Encoding γ-Glutamyl Kinase and γ-Glutamyl Phosphate Reductase from a Tomato cDNA Library....Pages 245-254
Regulation of Gene Expression in Response to Drought and Osmotic Shock....Pages 255-272
Gene Expression during Water Stress....Pages 273-278
Molecular Genetic Approaches to Improving Heat and Drought Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants....Pages 279-289
Evolution and Metabolic Engineering of Osmoprotectant Accumulation in Higher Plants....Pages 291-302
Regulation of Shoot Growth in Dry Soils by Abscisic Acid and by Root Messages....Pages 303-313
“Stress Tolerance in Plants”: What are we Looking for?....Pages 315-324
Proteolysis and Proteolytic Activities in the Acclimation to Stress: The Case of Sugar Starvation in Maize Root Tips....Pages 325-334
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Regulation of the rab 17 Gene in Aba-Deficient and Aba-Insensitive viviparous Mutants of Maize....Pages 335-343
A Role for Sorbitol in Desiccation Tolerance of Developing Maize Kernels: Inference from the Properties of Maize Sorbitol Dehydrogenase....Pages 345-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Yeast Halotolerance Genes: Crucial Ion Transport and Metabolic Reactions in Salt Tolerance....Pages 371-380
Structure, Regulation and Function of the Osmotin Gene....Pages 381-414
Responses to Salt Stress in the Halophyte Mesembryanthemum Crystallinum ....Pages 415-428
Alterations in H + -ATPase Gene Expression in Response to Salt....Pages 429-442
Solute Regulation by Calcium in Salt-Stressed Plants....Pages 443-461
The Response of Plants to Salinity: A Working Hypothesis....Pages 463-476
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Caps, Cors, Dehydrins , and Molecular Chaperones: Their Relationship with Low Temperature Responses in Spinach....Pages 479-499
Low Temperature Signal Transduction, Gene Expression, And Cold Acclimation: Multiple Roles of Low Temperature....Pages 501-514
Molecular Analysis of Cold-Hardening in Barley....Pages 515-526
Regulation of Low Temperature-Induced Genes during Cold Acclimation of Arabidopsis Thaliana ....Pages 527-542
Genetically Engineered Modification of Plant Chilling Sensitivity and Characterization of Cyanobacterial Heat Shock Proteins....Pages 543-555
Low Temperature Regulation of Gene Expression in winter Brassica napus .....Pages 557-568
Sorting Genes Controlling Freezing Stress Resistance....Pages 569-586
Front Matter....Pages 587-587
Engineering Plants for Stress Tolerance via Organelle Genomes....Pages 589-604