1. Preface

   • Andreas Sievers
   • Tom K. Scott

   OriginalPaper Pages: S1 - S1

2. Introduction: workshop purpose and structure

   • Günter Ruyters

   OriginalPaper Pages: S3 - S4

3. Graviperception and graviorientation in flagellates

   • D.-P. Häder
   • Ruth Hemmersbach

   Unicellular plants Pages: S7 - S10

4. Gravitropism in tip-growing cells

   • Markus Braun

   Unicellular plants Pages: S11 - S19

5. Flammulina as a model system for fungal graviresponses

   • Volker D. Kern
   • Kurt Mendgen
   • Bertold Hock

   Fungi Pages: S23 - S32

6. Plant responses to environmental stress: regulation and functions of the ArabidopsisTCH genes

   • Janet Braam
   • Melissa L. Sistrunk
   • Keith A. Johnson

   Cell development Pages: S35 - S41

7. Fusion and metabolism of plant cells as affected by microgravity

   • Rüdiger Hampp
   • Ellen Hoffmann
   • Luigi De Filippis

   Cell development Pages: S42 - S53

8. Statocyte polarity and gravisensitivity in seedling roots grown in microgravity

   • Gérald Perbal
   • Dominique Driss-Ecole
   • Dieter Volkmann

   Multicellular plants Graviperception Pages: S57 - S62

9. Plastids and gravitropic sensing

   • Fred D. Sack

   Multicellular plants Graviperception Pages: S63 - S68

10. Root cytoskeleton: its role in perception of and response to gravity

    • F. Baluška
    • K. H. Hasenstein

    Multicellular plants Graviperception Pages: S69 - S78

11. Cytoplasmic streaming and gravity sensing in Chara internodal cells

    • Mark P. Staves

    Multicellular plants Graviperception Pages: S79 - S84

12. Calcium in gravitropism. A re-examination

    • William Sinclair
    • Anthony J. Trewavas

    Multicellular plants Graviperception Pages: S85 - S90

13. Light-regulated root gravitropism: a role for, and characterization of, a calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase homolog

    • Ying-Tang Lu
    • Lewis J. Feldman

    Multicellular plants Graviperception Pages: S91 - S97

14. BioelectriCity, gravity and plants

    • Manfred H. Weisenseel
    • Andreas J. Meyer

    Multicellular plants Graviperception Pages: S98 - S106

15. General discussion on graviperception

    • Günther F. E. Scherer

    Multicellular plants Graviperception Pages: S107 - S111

16. Cellular specifiCity of the gravitropic motor response in roots

    • Michael L. Evans
    • Hideo Ishikawa

    Multicellular plants Graviresponses Pages: S115 - S122

17. Gravistimulated asymmetries in the outer epidermal cell walls of graviresponding coleoptiles

    • H. G. Edelmann

    Multicellular plants Graviresponses Pages: S123 - S129

18. Cellular mechanisms underlying growth asymmetry during stem gravitropism

    • Daniel J. Cosgrove

    Multicellular plants Graviresponses Pages: S130 - S135

19. Graviresponses in herbs and trees: a major role for the redistribution of tissue and growth stresses

    • Zygmunt Hejnowicz

    Multicellular plants Graviresponses Pages: S136 - S146

20. Circumnutations: results from recent experiments on Earth and in space

    • Anders Johnsson

    Multicellular plants Graviresponses Pages: S147 - S158

21. Solving the puzzle of gravitropism — has a lost piece been found?

    • Richard D. Firn
    • John Digby

    Multicellular plants Graviresponses Pages: S159 - S163

22. Gravimorphogenesis: gravity-regulated formation of the peg in cucumber seedlings

    • Hideyuki Takahashi

    Multicellular plants Graviresponses Pages: S164 - S169

23. General discussion on graviresponses

    • Robert E. Cleland

    Multicellular plants Graviresponses Pages: S170 - S173

24. Plant reproduction during spaceflight: importance of the gaseous environment

    • Mary E. Musgrave
    • Anxiu Kuang
    • Sharon W. Matthews

    Multicellular plants Plant reproduction Pages: S177 - S184

25. Evaluation of the three-dimensional clinostat as a simulator of weightlessness

    • Takayuki Hoson
    • Seiichiro Kamisaka
    • Brigitte Buchen

    Multicellular plants Plant reproduction Pages: S187 - S197

26. The closed equilibrated biological aquatic system: general concept and aspects of botanical research

    • Volker Blüm
    • Heike Holländer-Czytko
    • Dirk Voeste

    Biological life support systems Pages: S201 - S208

27. Future research in plant biology in space: summary of critical issues and recommendations of the workshop

    • Günter Ruyters
    • Tom K. Scott

    Future space research in plant biology Pages: S211 - S213