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It is an essential resource for students, researchers, and conservationists.” (Marcelo Trovó, Brazilian Journal of Botany, Vol. 46 (4), 2023)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSection I – An introduction to Melastomataceae\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1. Melastomataceae diversity and distribution\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2. History of Classification of the Melastomataceae\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3. General morphology and terminology \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4. Historical biogeography of Melastomataceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSection II – Systematics\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5. An overview of Melastomataceae classification and phylogenetics\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6. 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Stamen diversity in Melastomataceae: morphology, color and function\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e27. Patterns of diversification of Miconia (Miconieae) in the Greater and Lesser Antilles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e28. Colonization by Melastomataceae and its diversification in the Atlantic Forest\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e29. A review of the paleobotanical record of Melastomataceae \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSection IV – Ecology\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e30. Shapes of species responses to soil fertility in lowland Amazonian Melastomataceae \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e31. Seed germination ecology in Neotropical Melastomataceae \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e32. Seed dispersal ecology in Neotropical Melastomataceae\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e33. Myrmecophytism in the Melastomataceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSection V –  Melastomataceae and humans\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e34. 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Theseinclude,phospholipaseA,generatinglyso-phospholipidsandfreefatty acids(tobeconvertedintoprostaglandinsandleukotrienes),phospholipaseD,to generatethelipidsecondmessenger,phosphatidicacid(PA),andphosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), generating a distinct set of polyphosphoinositides (PPI) ph- phorylated at the D3-position of the inositol ring, all with separate signaling functions. Sphingolipids,representinganotherimportantgroupofsignalinglipids, alsocameacross. Themajorityoftheselipid-basedsignalingpathwayshavebeendiscoveredin plantcellstoo. Moreover,theyhavebeenfoundtobeactivatedinresponsetoa widevarietyofbioticandabioticstresssignals,butalsotobebasicallyinvolvedin plantgrowthanddevelopment. Whilemanyoftheenzymes,lipids,andtheirtargets involved arewell conserved, major differences with the mammalian paradigms havealsoemerged. Thisbookhighlightsthecurrentstatusofplantlipidsignaling. Allchaptershave beenwrittenbyexpertsinthe?eldandcoverinformationforbothbeginnersand advancedlipidologists. PartIincludesphospholipases(Chaps. 1-3),partII,lipid kinases (Chaps. 4-7), part III, lipid phosphatases (Chaps. 8-9), part IV, ix x Preface inositolphosphates and PPI metabolism (Chaps. 10-13), part V, PA signaling (Chaps. 14-17),andpartVI,additionallipidsignals,e. g. oxylipins,NAPEand sphingolipids(Chaps18-20). Ithasbeenagreatpleasuretobetheeditorofthis bookandtobeawitnessofthislipid-signalingadventure. Amsterdam,June2009 TeunMunnik Contents PartI Phospholipases PhospholipaseAinPlantSignalTransduction...3 Gu..ntherF. E. Scherer TheEmergingRolesofPhospholipaseCinPlantGrowth andDevelopment...23 PeterE. DowdandSimonGilroy PlantPhospholipaseD...39 WenhuaZhang,XiaoboWan,YueyunHong,WeiqiLi,andXueminWang PartII Kinases Phosphatidylinositol4-PhosphateisRequiredforTip GrowthinArabidopsisthaliana ...65 AmyL. SzumlanskiandErikNielsen PIP-KinasesasKeyRegulatorsofPlantFunction ...79 TillIschebeckandIngoHeilmann PlantPhosphatidylinositol3-Kinase...95 YureeLee,TeunMunnik,andYoungsookLee DiacylglycerolKinase...107 StevenA. AriszandTeunMunnik xi xii Contents PartIII Phosphatases SignalingandthePolyphosphoinositidePhosphatasesfromPlants ...117 GlendaE. Gillaspy PhosphatidicAcidPhosphatasesinSeedPlants...131 YukiNakamuraandHiroyukiOhta PartIV PPIMetabolism InsP inPlantCells ...145 3 YangJuIm,BrianQPhillippy,andImaraYPerera InositolPolyphosphatesandKinases...161 JillStevenson-PaulikandBrianQ. Phillippy PhosphoinositidesandPlantCellWallSynthesis ...175 RuiqinZhong,RyanL. McCarthy,andZheng-HuaYe ImagingLipidsinLivingPlants ...185 JoopE. M. VermeerandTeunMunnik PartV PASignaling PhosphatidicAcid:AnElectrostatic\/Hydrogen-BondSwitch?...2 03 EdgarEduardKooijmanandChristaTesterink NitricOxideandPhosphatidicAcidSignalinginPlants...223 AyelenM. Diste'fano,M. LucianaLanteri,ArjentenHave, CarlosGarc?'a-Mata,LorenzoLamattina,andAnaM. Laxalt 3-Phosphoinositide-DependentProteinKinaseisaSwitchboard fromSignalingLipidstoProteinPhosphorylationCascades...243 ChristineZalejskiandLa'szlo'Bo..gre PartVI AdditionalLipidSignals DiacylglycerolPyrophosphate,ANovelPlantSignalingLipid...263 EmmanuelleJeannette,SophieParadis,andChristineZalejski OxylipinSignalingandPlantGrowth...277 AlinaMosblech,IvoFeussner,andIngoHeilmann Contents xiii FattyAcidAmideHydrolaseandtheMetabolismof N-AcylethanolamineLipidMediatorsinPlants...293 KentD. ChapmanandElisonB. Blanca?or SphingolipidSignalinginPlants...307 LouiseV. MichaelsonandJohnathanA. Napier Index ...323 Contributors Steven A. Arisz Section Plant Physiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences,UniversityofAmsterdam,SciencePark904,NL-1098XH,Amsterdam, TheNetherlands ElisonB. Blanca?or SamuelRobertsNobleFoundation,PlantBiologyDivision, Ardmore,OK73401,USA,eblanca?or@noble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhospholipases.- Phospholipase A in Plant Signal Transduction.- The Emerging Roles of Phospholipase C in Plant Growth and Development.- Plant Phospholipase D.- Kinases.- Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate is Required for Tip Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana.- PIP-Kinases as Key Regulators of Plant Function.- Plant Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase.- Diacylglycerol Kinase.- Phosphatases.- Signaling and the Polyphosphoinositide Phosphatases from Plants.- Phosphatidic Acid Phosphatases in Seed Plants.- PPI Metabolism.- InsP3 in Plant Cells.- Inositol Polyphosphates and Kinases.- Phosphoinositides and Plant Cell Wall Synthesis.- Imaging Lipids in Living Plants.- PA Signaling.- Phosphatidic Acid: An Electrostatic\/Hydrogen-Bond Switch?.- Nitric Oxide and Phosphatidic Acid Signaling in Plants.- 3-Phosphoinositide-Dependent Protein Kinase is a Switchboard from Signaling Lipids to Protein Phosphorylation Cascades.- Diacylglycerol Pyrophosphate, A Novel Plant Signaling Lipid.- Additional Lipid Signals.- Oxylipin Signaling and Plant Growth.- Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase and the Metabolism of N-Acylethanolamine Lipid Mediators in Plants.- Sphingolipid Signaling in Plants.","brand":"Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH \u0026 Co. 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Accompanied by other early eudicot lineages, this reflects the well-documented origin of the group as invaders into the conifer-, cycad- and seed fern-dominated forests of the Cretaceous which, at that time, were transformed into the tropical rainforest biome. In this volume, 24 families with 429 genera comprising over 12,000 species are treated. Many of these belong to the vast family of the Euphorbiaceae (here conceived in a broader sense), followed by the Violaceae, whereas some of the remaining families are very small and even relictual. The revised classification includes a complete inventory of the genera belonging to the families treated in this volume, along with their diagnostic features and keys for their identification. References to the latest taxonomic literature and links to many different disciplines important to modern plant systematics make the volume a valuable source of information on the manifold aspects of plant diversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Malpighiales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBalanopaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaryocaraceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG.T. Prance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentroplacaeae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChrysobalanaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG.T. Prance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCtenolophonaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDichapetalaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG.T. Prance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElatinaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErythroxylaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. Bittrich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuphorbiaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG.L. Webster †\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuphroniaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoupiaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumiriaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrvingiaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIxonanthaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eS. Dressler, M. Repplinger and C. Bayer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLophopyxidaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedusagynaceae              \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.C. Dickison †\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOchnaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM.C.E. Amaral and V. Bittrich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePandaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePutranjivaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG. Levin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuiinaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK. Kubitzki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhizophoraceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA.E. Schwarzbach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrigoniaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. Bittrich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViolaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH.E. Ballard, Jr., J. de Paula-Souza and G.A. Wahlert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddition to Peridiscaceae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC. Bayer and S. Dressler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral References\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH \u0026 Co. KG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49420036931927,"sku":"9783642394164","price":161.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783642394164.jpg?v=1730540558"},{"product_id":"pflanzenbiochemie-9783662654286","title":"Pflanzenbiochemie","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDieses Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Übersicht über die fundamentalen Aspekte der Pflanzenbiochemie. Die biochemischen Abläufe in einer Pflanze sind letztendlich eine wesentliche Grundlage des Lebens auf unserem Planeten. Stoffwechselprozesse, wie die Photosynthese, die Kohlendioxid-Fixierung u.v.a., werden ausführlich erklärt. Die Erkenntnisse über diese pflanzenbiochemischen Prozesse könnten genutzt werden, den steigenden CO2-Emissionen auf der Erde entgegenzuwirken. Das Wissen über die molekularen und biochemischen Abläufe in Pflanzen sind also Voraussetzung, das zukünftige Leben auf der Erde zu sichern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEbenso essenziell sind die Erkenntnisse der Pflanzenmolekularbiologie und -biochemie für die wirtschaftliche Anwendung und Nutzung der Pflanzen. Studierende werden in diesem Werk lernen, welche Schritte erforderlich sind, um transgene Pflanzen zu erzeugen und um Pros und Cons der pflanzlichen Gentechnik abschätzen und vermitteln zu können.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn der \u003cb\u003e6. Auflage\u003c\/b\u003e wurden zahlreiche Aktualisierungen vorgenommen. Es werden u.a. neue Einblicke zur Evolution der Pflanzen gegeben, und weitere Details des Photosyntheseapparates, der Stärke-Biosynthese und -Regulation, sowie der Funktionen und Biosynthesen von Sekundärmetaboliten dargestellt. Darüber hinaus wird erläutert, wie die molekulare Genschere CRISPR-Cas zur Erzeugung transgener Pflanzen eingesetzt werden kann.\u003c\/p\u003eBesonderen Wert legen die Autor*innen darauf, durch eine klare und verständliche Didaktik komplexe Sachverhalte darzustellen – das ist ein Kennzeichen dieses Lehrbuches. 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This warrants to identify various stress conditions prevalent globally and tailor crop adaptability and productivity to the maximum accordingly, employing physio-molecular modern tools and techniques with judicious amalgamation with conventional crop husbandry. As a result, the book chapters encompass diverse environmental factors, internal physio-molecular processes and their modulations with a final goal of expanding area under cultivation by utilization of constraint terrains of poor site quality and augmenting sustainable crop productivity and quality on the face of rapidly changing climate. The book includes role of plant hormones, nano-sensors, nanomaterials etc. in stress tolerance responses, capturing recent advancement in the field of stress tolerance, enlarging scope of coverage by gleaning modern literature and providing glimpses of futuristic scenario of agriculture practices that can render ‘balance staple food rich in nutrition, vitamins and minerals’ to teeming billions of global human populations. Thus, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of stress environment and understanding stress physiology for developing stress tolerant crops. The book covers current knowledge and future prospects to achieve enhanced food security under stress environment of crops. The renowned contributors elegantly crafted each chapter, suited alike to both classroom texts for graduate students and reference material for researchers. The language and style are simple and lucid with liberal use of illustrations. This book should be on the shelf of university\/ personal libraries for inquisitive students and enlightened researchers.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Role of Nanosensors and Bionanosesors in Crop Abiotic Stress.- Chapter 2.  Role of Environment Stress Leaf Senescence and Crop productivity.- Chapter 3. Genomics in Enhancing Crop Productivity against Stresses.- Chapter 4. Transgenic plants: A Tool to Increase Crop Productivity Under Stress Environment.- Chapter 5. Breeding efforts for crop productivity in abiotic stress environment.- Chapter 6. Changing Environment and Crop Plant Breeding.- Chapter 7. Crop plants, abiotic stress, reactive oxygen species production, signaling and their consequences.- Chapter 8. Environment Stress Tolerance in Plants -Physiological Aspects.- Chapter 9. Role of hormones in crop plants root system architecture under changing environmental conditions.- Chapter 10. Water Logging Tolerance and Crop Productivity.- Chapter 11. Crop Adaptability to Excess Salts.- Chapter 12. Crop Scavenging Potential to Heavy Metals.- Chapter 13. Role of plant microbiome under stress environment to enhance crop productivity.- Chapter 14. Role of Effective Management of Harvested Crop to Increase Productivity under Stress Environment.- Chapter 15. Bioactive Compost for Managing Plant Growth under Stress Environment.- Chapter 16. Salicylic acid: Metabolism, Regulation and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Chapter 17. JA and Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Chapter 18. ABA: Metabolism, Regulation and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Chapter 19. Polyamines: Metabolism, Regulation and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.-  Chapter 20. Agriculture for Combating Global Starvation.- Chapter 21. 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Plants are severely challenged by diverse abiotic stress factors such as low water availability (drought), excess water (flooding\/ waterlogging), extremes of temperatures (cold, chilling, frost, and heat), salinity, mineral deficiency, and heavy metal toxicity. Agronomically important cereal crops like Rice, Wheat, Maize, Sorghum, Pearl Millet, Barley, Oats, Rye, Foxtail Millets etc. that are the major sources of food material and nutritional components for human health are mostly exposed to abiotic stresses during the critical phases of flowering and grain yield. Different Omics platforms like genomics, transcriptomics proteomics, metabolomics and phenomics, in conjunction with breeding and transgenic technology, and high throughput technologies like next generation sequencing, epigenomics, genome editing and CRISPR-Cas technology have emerged altogether in understanding abiotic stress response and strengthening defense and tolerance mechanism of different cereals. This book is beneficial to different universities and research institutes working with different cereal crops in the areas of stress physiology, stress-associated genes and proteins, genomics, proteomics, genetic engineering, and other fields of molecular plant physiology. The book can also be used as advanced textbook for the course work of research and master’s level students. It will be of use to people involved in ecological studies and sustainable agriculture. The proposed book bring together the global leaders working on environmental stress in different cereal crops and motivate scientists to explore new horizons in the relevant areas of research.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Morphological, architectural and biochemical modifications of cereal crops during abiotic stress.- Chapter 2. Cereal physiology, flowering and grain yield under salinity and drought stress.- Chapter 3. Physiology, flowering and grain yield under abiotic stress imposed by heavy metals.- Chapter 4. Priming effect in developing abiotic stress tolerance in cereals through metabolome reprograming.- Chapter 5. Understanding abiotic stress tolerance in cereals through genomics and proteomics approaches.- Chapter 6. Metabolome analyses in response to diverse abiotic stress.- Chapter 7. Metabolomic profiling of different cereals during biotic and abiotic stresses.- Chapter 8. Plant breeding strategies for abiotic stress tolerance in cereals.- Chapter 9. Transgenic strategies to develop abiotic stress tolerance in cereals.- Chapter 10. Genetically engineered cereals tolerant to abiotic stress.-  Chapter 11. Genome editing and CRISPR-Cas technology for enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in cereals.- Chapter 12. Abiotic stress tolerance in cereals through genome editing.- Chapter 13. Varietal physiology, metabolic regulation and molecular responses of rice genotypes to diverse environmental stresses.- Chapter 14. Breeding and Omics Approaches to Understand Abiotic Stress Response in Rice.- Chapter 15. Genomics and transcriptomics approaches to understand abiotic stress response in rice.- Chapter 16. Biochemical and molecular mechanism of wheat to diverse environmental stresses.-  Chapter 17. How microRNAs Regulate Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Wheat? A Snapshot.- Chapter 18. Molecular-genetic studies, breeding and genomics-based approaches to develop abiotic stress tolerance in sorghum.- Chapter 19. MicroRNAs shape the Tolerance Mechanisms against Abiotic Stress in Maize.- Chapter 20. Transcriptome, proteome and metabolome profiling for abiotic stress tolerance in maize and barley.- Chapter 21. Omics tools to understand abiotic stress response and adaptation in rye, oat and barley.- Chapter 22. Genomic tools and proteomic determinants for abiotic stress tolerance in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.).- Chapter 23. Advancement in Omics Technologies for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Finger millet.- Chapter 24. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) response and tolerance to abiotic stress.- Chapter 25. 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Genomics of host-pathogen interaction is a source of information for the teachers, students, researchers, and policy makers to foster success in enhancing the Brassica production and productivity through the development of improved disease-resistant varieties with the use of omics technologies. It is a base and sound plate form for managing biological stresses of Brassica at global level. The book covers up-to-date information on genomics of host-pathogen interaction, pathogenomics of crucifers’ pathogen, and biometabolomics of host pathosystem supplemented with ample photographs, illustrations, and figures which make it stimulating, effective, and easy to comprehend for readers, researchers, biology students, teachers, and policy makers.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Genomics of crucifers’ host-pathosystem - Prologue.- 2. Crucifers’ pathogens genome.- 3. Genomics of host- pathogen interaction.- 4. 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Estimation of various plant pigments and micro and macro elements. Quantification of plant hormones like IAA, ABA, GA and Ethylene. Techniques of DNA and RNA estimation, Slab Gel Electrophoresis and Western Blot analysis of plant proteins. Methods to study plant biomass and plant-water relationship. Methods to measure photosynthesis and respiration. Method for preparation of common buffe Working principles and operation techniques of a few analytical equipments like Infra-Red Gas Analyzer IRGA, Gas Liquid Chromatograph GLC, Psychrometer, Pressure bomb\/pressure chamber, flame photometer, atomic absorption spectrophotometer, Leaf Area Meter and Oxygen electrode. This book is useful for students in botany, plant physiology, biochemistry, horticulture, agronomy and other cognate disciplines and other research workers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Plant pigments. 2. Biomass. 3. Growth analysis. 4. Water relations. 5. 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METABOLISM.- 4. Concepts in Metabolism.- 5. Photosynthesis.- 6. Source-to-Sink Translocation of Photoassimilates.- 7. Respiration.- 8. ATP Synthesis.- 9. Metabolism of Storage Carbohydrates.- 10. Lipid Metabolism.- 11. Nitrogen Metabolism.- 12. Sulfur, Phosphorus and Iron Metabolism.- UNIT III. DEVELOPMENT.- 13. Light Perception and Transduction.- 14. Plant Growth regulators – An Overview.- 15. Auxins.- 16. Cytokinins.- 17. Gibberellins.- 18. Abscisic Acid.- 19. Ethylene.- 20. Brassinosteroids.- 21. Jasmonic Acid.- 22. Novel Plant Growth Regulators and Gaseous Signaling Molecules.- 23. Signal Perception and Transduction Mechanisms.- 24. Embryogenesis, Growth and Differentiation.- 25. Flowering.- 26. Pollination, Fertilization and Seed Development.- 27. Fruit Development and Ripening.- 28. Seed Dormancy and Germination.- 29. Plant Movements.- 30. Senescence and Programmed Cell Death.- UNIT IV.   STRESS PHYSIOLOGY.- 31. Abiotic Stress.- 32. Biotic Interactions.- UNIT V.   APPLIED PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.- 33. Secondary Metabolites.- 34. Crop Physiology and Biotechnology.- GLOSSARY.- SUBJECT INDEX.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer Verlag, Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047521157463,"sku":"9789819957354","price":161.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789819957354.jpg?v=1750971839"},{"product_id":"physiologie-und-funktion-von-pflanzenwurzeln-11-borkheider-seminar-zur-okophysiologie-des-wurzelraumes-wissenschaftliche-arbeitstagung-in-schmerwitz-brandenburg-vom-25-bis-27-september-2000-9783519003373","title":"Physiologie und Funktion von Pflanzenwurzeln: 11.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDas Pflanzenwachstum und dessen Grundlage - das Wurzelsystem - nehmen eine zentrale Stellung in terrestrischen Ökosystemen ein. 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