Physical Stresses in Plants: Genes and Their Products for Tolerance

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Analysis of Multiple Classes of Soybean Heat Shock Genes and Proteins....Pages 3-20
Stress-Induced Activation of Chaperone Genes Implies the Operation of a Novel Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanism in the Cyanobacterium, Synechocystis PCC6803....Pages 21-29
Genetic Dissection of Thermotolerance in Maize....Pages 31-38
Derepression of the Heat Shock Response and Genetic Engineering of Thermotolerance in Arabidopsis using Recombinant Heat Shock Factor....Pages 39-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Physiological and Molecular Response of Barley to Cold and Drought Stress....Pages 49-54
Genes for Fatty Acid Desaturases and Choline Oxidase are Responsible for Tolerance to Low-Temperature and Salinity Stresses in Cyanobacteria and Plants....Pages 55-63
Marker-Assisted Genetic Analysis of Winter Hardiness in Barley....Pages 65-70
Cold Acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana : Function and Regulation of COR Genes....Pages 71-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
In Search of a Function for Dehydrin TAS14....Pages 85-94
Crucial Reactions for Salt Tolerance in Yeast....Pages 95-100
Cloning Salt Tolerance Genes by Insertional Mutagenesis Tagging and Gene Complementation....Pages 101-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Gene Expression during Dehydration Stress in the Resurrection Plant Craterostigma plantagineum ....Pages 117-122
Expression of the Maize rabl7 Gene in Response to Abscisic Acid and Osmotic Stress....Pages 123-130
The Role of Abscisic Acid in the Regulation of Gene Expression during Drought Stress....Pages 131-139
QTL Analysis of Stress Responses as a Method to Study the Importance of Stress-Induced Genes....Pages 141-152
Water Stress-Induced Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana ....Pages 153-161
Regulation of Gene Expression during Cellular Adaptation to Water Stress....Pages 163-169
Specific and General Gene Induction in Limiting Environmental Conditions....Pages 171-185
Enhanced Desiccation Survival by Engineering Osmolyte Biosynthesis in Plants....Pages 187-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Transduction of Light Signals in Plants....Pages 201-209
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Post-Translational Stabilization of ELIPs and Regulation of other Light Stress Genes under Prolonged Light and Cold Stress in Barley....Pages 211-222
Expression of Catalase and its Relation to Light Stress and Stress Tolerance....Pages 223-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Post-Transcriptional Regulation by Anoxia of a myb Gene in Rice ( Oryza sativa )....Pages 237-248
Jasmonates - Secondary Messengers in Plant Defense and Stress Reactions....Pages 249-259
Signal Perception and Intracellular Transduction in the Phytophthora Sojae /Parsley Interaction....Pages 261-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-276