Plant tropisms /

Plant tropisms /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Description:xv, 207 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Tropisms.
Growth (Plants)
Growth (Plants)
Tropisms.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6667023
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Other authors / contributors:Gilroy, Simon.
Masson, Patrick H.
ISBN:9780813823232 (alk. paper)
0813823234 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Mechanisms of Gravity Perception in Higher Plants
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Identification and characterization of gravity perception sites in plant organs
  • 1.2.1. Roots
  • 1.2.2. Hypocotyls and inflorescence stems (dicotyledons)
  • 1.2.3. Cereal pulvini (monocotyledons)
  • 1.3. The starch-statolith hypothesis
  • 1.3.1. A variety of plant organs utilize sedimenting amyloplasts to sense gravity
  • 1.3.2. Amyloplast sedimentation is influenced by the environment and developmental stage of the plant
  • 1.4. The gravitational pressure model for gravity sensing
  • 1.5. The cytoskeleton in gravity perception
  • 1.6. Concluding remarks and future prospects
  • 1.7. Acknowledgment
  • 1.8. Literature cited
  • Chapter 2. Signal Transduction in Gravitropism
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Gravity signal transduction in roots and aboveground organs
  • 2.2.1. Do mechano-sensitive ion channels function as gravity receptors?
  • 2.2.2. Inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate seems to function in gravity signal transduction
  • 2.2.3. Do pH changes contribute to gravity signal transduction?
  • 2.2.4. Proteins implicated in gravity signal transduction
  • 2.2.5. Global `-omic' approaches to the study of root gravitropism
  • 2.2.6. Relocalization of auxin transport facilitators or activity regulation?
  • 2.2.7. Could cytokinin also contribute to the gravitropic signal?
  • 2.3. Gravity signal transduction in organs that do not grow vertically
  • 2.4. Acknowledgments
  • 2.5. Literature cited
  • Chapter 3. Auxin Transport and the Integration of Gravitropic Growth
  • 3.1. Introduction to auxins
  • 3.2. Auxin transport and its role in plant gravity response
  • 3.3. Approaches to identify proteins (hat mediate IAA efflux
  • 3.4. Proteins that mediate IAA efflux
  • 3.5. IAA influx carriers and their role in gravitropism
  • 3.6. Regulation of IAA efflux protein location and activity during gravity response
  • 3.6.1. Mechanisms that may control localization of IAA efflux carriers
  • 3.6.2. Regulation of IAA efflux by synthesis and degradation of efflux carriers
  • 3.6.3. Regulation of auxin transport by reversible protein phosphorylation
  • 3.6.4. Regulation of auxin transport by flavonoids
  • 3.6.5. Regulation of auxin transport by other signaling pathways
  • 3.6.6. Regulation of gravity response by ethylene
  • 3.7. Overview of the mechanisms of auxin-induced growth
  • 3.8. Conclusions
  • 3.9. Acknowledgements
  • 3.10. Literature cited
  • Chapter 4. Phototropism and Its Relationship to Gravitropism
  • 4.1. Phototropism: general description and distribution
  • 4.2. Light perception
  • 4.3. Signal transduction and growth response
  • 4.4. Interactions with gravitropism
  • 4.5. Importance to plant form and function
  • 4.6. Conclusions and outlook
  • 4.7. Literature cited
  • Chapter 5. Touch Sensing and Thigmotropism
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Plant mechanoresponses
  • 5.2.1. Specialized touch responses
  • 5.2.2. Thigmomorphogenesis and thigmotropism
  • 5.3. General principles of touch perception
  • 5.3.1. Gating through membrane tension: the mechanoreceptor for hypo-osmotic stress bacteria, MscL
  • 5.3.2. Gating through tethers: the mechanoreceptor for gentle touch in Caenorhabditis elegans
  • 5.3.3. Evidence for mechanically gated ion channels in plants
  • 5.4. Signal transduction in touch and gravity perception
  • 5.4.1. Ionic signaling
  • 5.4.2. Ca 2+ signaling in the touch and gravity response
  • 5.5. Insights from transcriptional profiling
  • 5.6. Interaction of touch and gravity signaling/response
  • 5.7. Conclusion and Perspectives
  • 5.8. Acknowledgements
  • 5.9. Literature cited
  • Chapter 6. Other Tropisms and their Relationship to Gravitropism
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Hydrotropism
  • 6.2.1. Early studies of hydrotoprism
  • 6.2.2. Genetic analysis of hydrotropism
  • 6.2.3. Perception of moisture gradients and gravity stimuli by the root cap and the curvature response
  • 6.2.4. ABA and the hydrotropic response
  • 6.2.5. Future experiments
  • 6.3. Electrotropism
  • 6.4. Chemotropism
  • 6.5. Thermotropism and oxytropism
  • 6.6. Traumatropism
  • 6.7. Overview
  • 6.8. Acknowledgments
  • 6.9. Literature cited
  • Chapter 7. Single-Cell Gravitropism and Gravitaxis
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Definitions of responses to environmental stimuli that optimize the ecological fitness of single-cell organisms
  • 7.3. Occurrence and significance of gravitaxis in single-cell systems
  • 7.4. Significance of gravitropism in single-cell systems
  • 7.5. What makes a cell a biological gravity sensor?
  • 7.6. Gravity susception-the initial physical step of gravity sensing
  • 7.7. Susception in the statolith-based systems of Chora
  • 7.8. Susception in the statolith-based system Loxodes
  • 7.9. Susception in the protoplast-based systems of Euglena and Paramecium
  • 7.10. Graviperception in the statolith-based systems of Cham
  • 7.11. Graviperception in the statolith-based system Loxodes
  • 7.12. Graviperception in the protoplast-based systems Paramecium and Euglena
  • 7.13. Signal transduction pathways and graviresponse mechanisms in the statolith-based systems of Chara
  • 7.14. Signal transduction pathways and graviresponse mechanisms in Euglena and Paramecium
  • 7.15. Conclusions
  • 7.16. Acknowledgements
  • 7.17. Literature cited
  • Color Section
  • Chapter 8. Space-Based Research on Plant Tropisras
  • 8.1. Introduction-the variety of plant movements
  • 8.2. The microgravity environment
  • 8.3. Ground-based studies: mitigating the effects of gravity
  • 5.4. Gravitropism
  • 8.4.1. Gravitropism: gravity perception
  • 8.4.2. Gravitropism: signal transduction
  • 8.4.3. Gravitropism: the curving response
  • 8.5. Phototropism
  • 8.6. Hydrotropism, autotropism, and oxytropism
  • 8.7. Studies of other plant movements in microgravity
  • 8.8. Space flight hardware used to study tropisms
  • 8.9. Future outlook and prospects
  • 8.10. Literature cited
  • Chapter 9. Plan(t)s for Space Exploration
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Human missions to space
  • 9.3. Life support
  • 9.4. Genomics and space exploration
  • 9.5. Nanotechnology
  • 9.6. Sensor, biosensors, and intelligent machines
  • 9.7. Plan(t)s for Space Exploration
  • 9.8. Imagine
  • 9.9. Literature cited
  • Index
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