Interacting Stresses on Plants in a Changing Climate

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages XIX-XIX
The Potential Effects of Climate Change on World Food Supply....Pages 1-26
Manifestations of Mechanical Stress in Membranes: A Prospective Hypothesis of Endogenous Expression of Exogenous Stress Signalling....Pages 27-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Significance of Increasing Ambient CO 2 for Plant Growth and Survival, and Interactions with Air Pollution....Pages 51-75
Ozone, Sulphur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides: Some Effects on the Water Relations of Herbaceous Plants and Trees....Pages 77-88
Ozone/Sulphur Dioxide Interactions in Temperate Arable Crops....Pages 89-110
Predisposition to Stress Following Exposure to Air Pollution....Pages 111-123
Influence of Nitrogenous Air Pollutants on Carbon Dioxide and Ozone Effects on Vegetation....Pages 125-137
Impact of Air Pollutants on Plants in Hot, Dry Climates....Pages 139-152
The Molecular Biology of Plants Exposed to Ultraviolet-B Radiation and the Interaction with Other Stresses....Pages 153-170
The Assessment of Plant Damage by Reactive Hydrocarbons and their Oxidation Products....Pages 171-183
Too Much of a Good Thing? Long-Term Exposure to Elevated CO 2 Decreases Carboxylating and Photorespiratory Enzymes and Increases Respiratory Enzyme Activity in Spruce....Pages 185-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Climatic Change and Wetland Vegetation in Northern Europe....Pages 197-210
Response of Coastal Vegetation to Flooding and Salinity: A Case Study in the Rapidly Subsiding Mississippi River Deltaic Plain, USA....Pages 211-229
Flood Tolerant and Flood Sensitive Plants Under Primary and Secondary Anoxia....Pages 231-241
Responses to Total Submergence in Tolerant and Intolerant Riverside Species....Pages 243-266
Inorganic Carbon Assimilation and Growth of Aquatic Macrophytes....Pages 267-285
A Microelectrode Study of Oxygen Distribution in the Roots of Intact Maize Seedlings....Pages 287-304
Long Term Survival of Rhizomatous Species Under Oxygen Deprivation....Pages 305-314
Promotion of Stem Extension in an Aquatic Monocot (Potamogeton Pectinatus L.) by the Complete Absence of Oxygen, and by Partial Oxygen Shortage....Pages 315-325
Metabolic Acclimation to Anoxic Conditions and Biochemical Basis of Death....Pages 327-332
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Energy and Fermentation Metabolism in Hypoxic Rice Coleoptiles — A Multinuclear NMR Approach....Pages 333-352
Endogenous Phytohormones and Germination of Rice Under Anoxia: Indoleacetic Acid and Abscisic Acid....Pages 353-363
Preliminary Evidence of Nitrate Assimilation during the Anaerobic Germination of Rice....Pages 365-374
Molecular Genetic Basis of Metabolic Adaptation to Anoxia in Maize and its Possible Utility for Improving Tolerance of Crops to Soil Waterlogging....Pages 375-393
Metabolic Acclimation in Winter Cereals by Interacting Low Temperature Stresses....Pages 395-406
Metabolic and Cellular Impact of Ice Encasement on Herbage Plants....Pages 407-421
Responses of Nodulated Legumes to Oxygen Deficiency....Pages 423-432
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Effects of Drought and Elevated CO 2 on Plant Water Use Efficiency and Productivity....Pages 435-465
Water Relations in Controlled Environments and the Field....Pages 467-483
The Physiology of Survival at the Limits of Farming in the Dry Tropics....Pages 485-496
Plant Water Stress Under Low Rainfall, High Temperature Summer Conditions in Portugal....Pages 497-509
Identification of Stress Tolerance Traits in Sugar Beet....Pages 511-524
Stomatal Responses to Abscisic Acid in Natural Environments....Pages 525-542
ABA and the Control of Growth and Physiology of Stressed Plants....Pages 543-555
Regulation of Root Growth at Low Water Potentials....Pages 557-572
Stress-Enhanced Metabolism of Abscisic Acid....Pages 573-581
Molecular Biological Responses to Drought in Maize....Pages 583-591
Replacement of Glycine Betaine by ß-Alanine Betaine, Choline-O-Sulphate or Dimethylsulphoniopropionate in Plants Adapted to Interacting Stresses....Pages 593-601
Wall Extensibility and the Growth of Salt Stressed Leaves....Pages 603-615
Growth and Composition of Nitrogen and Water Stressed Pepper Plants, Their Assessment by Remote Sensing and Their Herbivory Effects....Pages 617-631
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Screening Methods for Determining Drought Resistance in Barley....Pages 633-642
Front Matter....Pages 645-645
Low Temperature Induced Biochemical Mechanisms: Implications for Cold Acclimation and De-Acclimation....Pages 647-657
Molecular Mechanisms of Freeze-Thaw Injury and Cold Acclimation in Herbaceous Plants: Merging Physiological and Genetic Approaches....Pages 659-680
Molecular Biology of Cold Tolerance....Pages 681-695
Redesigning Crops for Increased Tolerance to Freezing Stress....Pages 697-714
The Molecular Mechanism of the Low- Temperature Tolerance of Plants Studied by Gene Technology of Membrane Lipids....Pages 715-723
Aspects of the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Cold Tolerance in Plants....Pages 725-739
Front Matter....Pages 741-741
Report of Atmospheric Pollution Working Group....Pages 743-747
Report of Flooding and Submergence Working Group....Pages 749-751
Report of Drought Stress Working Group....Pages 753-754
Report of Cold Stress Working Group....Pages 755-756
Back Matter....Pages 757-771