Signal Transduction in Plant Growth and Development

1. Front Matter

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2. Signal Transducing Proteins in Plants: an Overview

   • Zhenbiao Yang

   Pages 1-37

3. G-Protein Regulation of Plant K+ Channels

   • Sarah M. Assmann

   Pages 39-61

4. Metabolite Sensing and Regulatory Points of Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolic Pathways and Partitioning in Plants

   • Guo-Hua Miao

   Pages 63-86

5. Regulation of C/N Interactions in Higher Plants by Protein Phosphorylation

   • Steven C. Huber, Werner M. Kaiser

   Pages 87-112

6. Phosphorylation and the Cytoskeleton

   • Siân M. Ritchie, Nicholas H. Battey

   Pages 113-139

7. The Regulatory Phosphorylation of C₄ Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase: a Cardinal Event in C₄ Photosynthesis

   • Jean Vidal, Jean-Noël Pierre, Cristina Echevarria

   Pages 141-166

8. Salicylic Acid—an Important Signal in Plants

   • Kristin K. Wobbe, Daniel F. Klessig

   Pages 167-196

9. Biologically Active Lipids and Lipid-modulated Protein Kinase in Plants

   • Günther F. E. Scherer

   Pages 197-215

10. S-Locus Receptor Kinase Genes and Self-incompatibility in Brassica napus

    • Daphne R. Goring, Steven J. Rothstein

    Pages 217-230

11. Mechanisms of Input and Output in Circadian Transduction Pathways

    • Isabelle Carré, Steve A. Kay

    Pages 231-247

12. Role of Plasmodesmata and Virus Movement Proteins in Spread of Plant Viruses

    • Csilla A. Fenczik, Bernard L. Epel, Roger N. Beachy

    Pages 249-279

13. Ex-Planta and In-Planta Signals in Legume-Rhizobium Interaction

    • Zonglie Hong, Desh Pal S. Verma

    Pages 281-309

14. Back Matter

    Pages 311-318

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Plant growth and development is controlled by various environmental cues that are sensed by the plant via various signal transduction pathways coupled to specific response. Some of these pathways are conserved from yeast to plants being regulated by various kinases and phosphatases. In addition, plants have many unique pathways that transduce to specific signals such as light, phytohormones and oligosaccharides. This volume highlights some of the examples of the plant signal transduction machinery opening new vistas in research on plant growth and development. The new technologies including the use of bacteria, yeast and Arabidopsis as functional complementation systems are providing proof of function of many of the proteins that show homology to those from other organisms. These studies will eventually lead to improvement of crop plants and use of plants as a new resource for producing desirable products to meet the growing needs of mankind.

• Phytohormon
• bacteria
• development
• growth
• plant
• plant growth
• plants
• proteins
• signal transduction

• Department of Molecular Genetics and Plant Biotechnology Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

  Desh Pal S. Verma

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