Plant Growth Substances 1985: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, Held at Heidelberg, August 26–31, 1985

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Plant Cell Responses and the Role of Growth Substances....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Use of Immunological Techniques in Plant Hormone Analysis....Pages 13-21
Immunoassays for the Quantitation of Plant Growth Regulators Using Monoclonal Antibodies....Pages 22-25
Immunoassays for Plant Growth Regulators — A Help or a Hindrance?....Pages 26-34
Validation of Immunoassays....Pages 35-43
Immunoaffinity Columns for the Isolation and Analysis of Plant Hormones....Pages 44-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Dwarf Mutants in Maize — The Gibberellin Biosynthetic Pathway and its Molecular Future....Pages 55-64
Gibberellins: Structure-Activity Relationships and the Design of Molecular Probes....Pages 65-73
Gibberellin Biosynthesis from Gibberellin A 12 -Aldehyde....Pages 74-82
Biosynthetic and Metabolic Aspects of Auxins....Pages 83-91
Cytokinin Biosynthesis and Metabolism....Pages 92-98
The Nomenclature of Abscisic Acid and its Metabolites....Pages 99-100
Metabolism of Abscisic Acid....Pages 101-107
The Shapes of Abscisic Acid and the Active Site....Pages 108-119
Enzymes of Ethylene Biosynthesis....Pages 120-128
Chemistry, Physiology and Agricultural Application of Brassinolide and Related Steroids....Pages 129-138
Plant Growth Substances of Plant and Microbial Origin....Pages 139-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Plant Growth Substances and the Ionic Permeability of Membranes....Pages 151-158
Ca 2+ : Calmodulin Phytohormone-Linked Plant Senescence Control....Pages 159-168
Phytohormones and Gene Expression....Pages 169-176
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Enzymes of Auxin and Cytokinin Biosynthesis Encoded in Ti Plasmids....Pages 177-184
Cytokinin Biosynthetic Genes and Enzymes from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and other Plant-Associated Prokaryotes....Pages 185-196
The Evolution of Polar Transport Models, and some Possibilities for the Regulation of Auxin Carriers....Pages 197-202
Roles of Transport and Binding in the Specific Δ pH-Dependent Accumulation of Auxin by Zucchini Membrane Vesicles....Pages 203-208
Active Auxin Uptake by Specific Plasma Membrane Carriers....Pages 209-213
Two Comments on Auxin Transport: The Uptake/Efflux-Mechanism and the Problem of Adaptation....Pages 214-217
Further Characterization of the Presumptive Auxin Transport Carrier Using Monoclonal Antibodies....Pages 218-226
The Requirement for Calcium and Boron in Auxin Transport....Pages 227-230
Cellular Patterns Determined by Polar Transport....Pages 231-235
Auxin Transport and Shoot Tropisms: The Need for Precise Models....Pages 236-240
Auxin and Root Gravitropism: The State of Our Knowledge....Pages 241-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Are Angiosperm Hormones Present in, and Used as Hormones by, Algae?....Pages 249-256
Hormonal Coordination of the Processes Leading to Cell Fusion in Algae: A Glycoprotein Hormone from Red Algae....Pages 257-262
On the Hormonal System of Mosses....Pages 263-269
Phytohormones and Filicinae: Chemical Signals Triggering Morphogenesis in Schizaeaceae....Pages 270-274
The Control of Plant Cell Elongation by Auxin and Gibberellin....Pages 275-283
Mechanism of Growth Induction by Ester Compounds. Studies with Segments and Protoplasts of Oat Coleoptiles....Pages 284-292
The Control of Flower Initiation and Development....Pages 293-302
Hormonal Regulation of Plant Flowering....Pages 303-307
Phytohormones in Seed and Fruit Development....Pages 308-314
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
A Revision of the Hormone Balance Theory of Seed Dormancy: Studies on Gibberellin and/or Abscisic Acid-Deficient Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana ....Pages 315-323
Cytokinin Control of Monocarpic Senescence in Soybean....Pages 324-332
Epigenetic and Genetic Factors Regulating the Cytokinin Requirement of Cultured Cells....Pages 333-340
Apical Dominance and Correlations by Hormones....Pages 341-349
Hormonal Control of Assimilate Movement and Compartmentation....Pages 350-359
Front Matter....Pages 361-361
Aims and Possibilities of Applied Plant Bioregulation....Pages 363-367
Growth Regulation of Arable Crops....Pages 368-374
Ethylene as an Indicator and Regulator in the Development of Field Crops....Pages 375-379
Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Plant Growth Substances on Development and Yield of Soybeans....Pages 380-386
Natural and Synthetic Plant Growth Substances in Fruit Growing....Pages 387-390
Recent Advances in the Use of Growth Substances in Ornamental Horticulture....Pages 391-398
Interrelations of Plant Growth Substances, Mineral Nutrition and Crop Yield....Pages 399-403
Examples of the Use of Natural and Synthetic Plant Growth Substances in Cereal Breeding....Pages 404-409
Back Matter....Pages 411-422