Plant adaptation to environmental stress /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1993. |
| Description: | 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1562454 |
Table of Contents:
- Community and Ecosystem Level. 1. Climatic constraints on crop production / J. L. Monteith and J. Elston. 2. Population dynamics, evolution and environment: adaptation to environmental stress / W. H. O. Ernst. 3. Stress, competition, resource dynamics and vegetation processes / J. P. Grime. 4. What can models tell us? / M. Rees and J. H. Lawton. 5. Understanding photosynthetic adaptation to changing climate / D. W. Lawlor and A. J. Keys
- Whole Plant Responses. 6. Temperature stress / C. J. Pollock, C. F. Eagles, C. J. Howarth, P. H. D. Schunmann and J. L. Stoddart. 7. Plants under salt and water stress / J. Shalhevet. 8. Physiological basis of stress imposed by ozone pollution / T. A. Mansfield and M. Pearson. 9. Plant adaptation to environmental stress: metal pollutant tolerance / P. J. Peterson. 10. Structural and functional responses to fire and nutrient stress: case studies from the sandplains of South-West Australia / J. S. Pate
- Metabolic and Genetic Responses. 11. Chemical signalling and the adaptation of plants to conditions where water availability is restricted / W. J. Davies, F. Tardieu and C. L. Trejo. 12. Perception and transduction of stress by plant cells / R. A. Leigh. 13. Molecular and genetic analysis of the heat-shock response in transgenic plants / F. Schoffl, E. Kloske, A. Hubel, K. Severin and A. Wagner. 14. Long-term adaptation and survival / M. A. Hughes, M. A. Dunn, L. Zhang, R. S. Pearce, N. J. Goddard and A. J. White. 15. Significance of antioxidants in plant adaptation to environmental stress / A. Polle and H. Rennenberg. 16. Effects of stress on the genome / K. Bachmann
- Interactive Stresses. 17. Stress responses in plants infected by pathogenic and mutualistic fungi / P. G. Ayres and H. M. West. 18. Plant strategies and environmental stress: a dialectic approach / L. Oksanen.
