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- Edited by C. J. Smith, and J.
Gallon, both at the Biochemistry Research Group, University
College of Swansea, D. Chiatante, and G. Zocchi, both at
Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Starting from the mechanisms of signal
perception and transduction through to environmental effects, this
book looks at a whole range of growth regulators, including those
natural to the plants themselves, such as auxin and ethylene; and
natural products from other sources, such as the fungal product
fusicoccin. Regulation at all levels is considered, from initial
perception of the growth signal, through transduction responses and
DNA replication, to the "ultimate" level of cell expansion.
The message which emerges is that no one approach is going to solve
the remaining or future problems in this field; only by the efforts
and collaboration of physiologists, biochemists, molecular biologists
and others will progress be made.
- Contents: A critical review on
proposed hormone action: the example of auxin; Ecological adaptations
at levels with different scaling: ecosystems, whole plants, cells,
membranes, molecules; Assimilate translocation and membrane transport
as limiting factors for plant growth; Compartmentation of nutrient
ions in relation to supply and growth; Selection for mutants of Arabidopsis
thaliana altered in solute uptake; Plant sugar transporters: their
contribution to and their dependence on metabolism; Natural products
in plant growth regulations; The search for phytohormone receptors: a
role for auxin-binding proteins?; Ehtylene receptors; Cytokinin-binding
protein(s) and protein kinases in cytokinin signal transduction;
Biochemical regulation of DNA replication; Enforcement and release of
quiescence in cells in the embryo axis of the seed: role of the
nuclear proteins; rolB A bacterial gene capable of controlling
auxin response and morphogenesis in plant cells; From phytochrome to
phytochromes; Hormones in the seed of Sechium edule: role in
germination and growth; Growth, turgor, cell-wall properties, and
microfibril orientation along the growing-zone transduction in living
plant cells; Mobilization of vacuolar calcium through the tonoplast;
Metabolism-mediated control of STP-driven H^Ov extrusion: some
evidence and a working hypothesis; The plasma-membrane Ca^Ov pump:
biochemical characteristics and regulatory properties; Fusicoccin
receptors: perception and transduction of the fusicoccin signal;
Index.
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- 298 pages, halftones, line drawings,
tables, Clarendon Press, July 1994
- 0-19-857764-8, Hardback,
£62.95,
£47.20
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Biochemical
Mechanisms Involved in Plant Growth Regulation