Environmental Stress in Plants: Biochemical and Physiological Mechanisms

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Water Use Efficiency in Water and Salt Stressed Lycopersicon pennellii and Lycopersicon esculentum Plants....Pages 3-16
Water Stress and Stem Conductivity....Pages 17-24
Metabolic Consequences of Seed Maturation Drying....Pages 25-26
Abscisic Acid as a Factor in Modifying Drought Resistance....Pages 27-37
Breeding Methods for Drought Resistance....Pages 39-40
Amino Acid Metabolism in Relation to Osmotic Adjustment in Plant Cells....Pages 41-62
Betaine Synthesis as a Component of Osmoregulation....Pages 63-63
Biochemical and Genetic Characterization of Betaine Aldehyde Dehydrogenase....Pages 65-65
Osmotin: A Protein Associated with Osmotic Stress Adaptation in Plant Cells....Pages 67-87
 Salmonella typhimurium Mutants that are Not Stimulated by Glycinebetaine in Media of Elevated Osmolarity....Pages 89-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Effects of Salinity on Plant Growth and Crop Yields....Pages 101-119
The Possible Role of Various Membrane Transport Mechanisms in Adaptation to Salinity....Pages 121-130
The Role of Calcium in the Regulation of Membrane and Cellular Growth Processes under Salt Stress....Pages 131-138
Mechanisms of Adaptation to Salinity in Cultured Glycophyte Cells....Pages 139-157
Changes in Gene Expression Elicited by Salt Stress in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum ....Pages 159-171
Reduced Growth Rate and Changes in Cell Wall Proteins of Plant Cells Adapted to NaCl....Pages 173-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Aeration in Roots....Pages 197-206
Adenylate Energy Charge and Anaerobic Proteins....Pages 207-213
Anaerobic Induction of Lactate Dehydrogenase....Pages 215-216
Characterization of Nuclear Factors that Regulate Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Expression....Pages 217-224
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Identifying the Anaerobic Proteins of Maize....Pages 225-230
The Response to Anaerobic Stress: Transcriptional Regulation of Genes for Anaerobically Induced Proteins....Pages 231-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Molecular Changes in Membrane Lipids During Cold Stress....Pages 249-257
Plasma Membrane ATPase as a Key Site of Alteration by a Freeze-thaw Stress: Role in Recovery and Progressive Injury....Pages 259-265
Membrane Assembly during Acclimation to Low Temperature: Lipid-protein Interaction....Pages 267-279
Perturbation of Membrane Calcium as a Molecular Mechanism of Freezing Injury....Pages 281-290
Alterations of Gene Expression during the Induction of Freezing Tolerance in a Brassica napus Cell Suspension Culture....Pages 291-301
Osmotic Stress Causes Mechanical Freeze-Thaw Damage to Thylakoids In Vitro and In Vivo ....Pages 303-315
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Genetic Diversity of Heat Shock Protein Synthesis in Cereal Plants....Pages 319-330
The Heat Shock Response in Plants: Short-Term Heat Treatment Regimes and Thermotolerance....Pages 331-342
Developmental Expression of Heat Shock Proteins in Higher Plants....Pages 343-354
Adaptation of Thermotolerance in Cowpea Suspension Cultures....Pages 355-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-371