Progress in Botany

  • K. Esser
  • U. Löttge
  • W. Beyschlag
  • Jin Murata
Book

Part of the Progress in Botany book series (BOTANY, volume 68)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Review

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism: Now and Then
      Charles Barry Osmond
      Pages 3-32

  3. Genetics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 34-34
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    2. Function of Genetic Material: Progressive Insight into Antimicrobial Peptides and their Transcriptional Regulation
      Silke Hagen, Ulf Stahl
      Pages 35-56
    3. Function of Genetic Material: Assembly Factors of the Photosynthetic Machinery in Cyanobacteria
      Jörg Nickelsen, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Birgit Klinkert
      Pages 57-79
    4. Extranuclear Inheritance: Genetics and Biogenesis of Mitochondria
      Georg Michaelis, Elke Pratje
      Pages 80-97
    5. Extranuclear Inheritance: Virus-Like DNA-Elements in Yeast
      Stefanie Jeske, Friedhelm Meinhardt, Roland Klassen
      Pages 98-129
    6. Population Genetics: Evolutionary Features of Asexual Species
      Jörgen Tomiuk, Wolfgang Köhler
      Pages 130-150
    7. Plant Breeding: Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Crop Plants and its Exploitation in Breeding
      Wolfgang Friedt, Rod Snowdon, Frank Ordon, Jutta Ahlemeyer
      Pages 151-178
    8. Plant Breeding: Antisense ODN Inhibition in in vitro spike cultures as a powerful Diagnostic Tool in Studies on Cereal Grain Development
      Christer Jansson, Chuanxin Sun, Seedhabadee Ganeshan, Ravindra N. Chibbar
      Pages 179-190

  4. Physiology

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 192-192
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    2. Characean Algae: Still a Valid Model System to Examine Fundamental Principles in Plants
      Markus Braun, Ilse Foissner, Hinrich Löhring, Hendrik Schubert, Gerhard Thiel
      Pages 193-220
    3. Receptors for the Five Classical Plant Hormones
      Hartwig Löthen, Michael Böttger, Daniel Schenck
      Pages 221-241
    4. Spatiotemporal Patterns and Distributed Computation—A Formal Link between CO2 Signalling, Diffusion and Stomatal Regulation
      Ulrich Löttge, Marc-Thorsten Hött
      Pages 242-260
    5. Plant Haemoglobins, Nitrate and Nitric Oxide: Old Players, New Games
      Yoshinari Ohwaki, Werner M. Kaiser
      Pages 261-287
    6. Living in Day-Night Cycles–Specific Diel Leaf Growth Patterns and the Circadian Control of Photomorphogenesis
      Shizue Matsubara, Achim Walter
      Pages 288-314

  5. Ecology

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 316-316
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    2. Competitive Networks, Indirect Interactions, and Allelopathy: A Microbial Viewpoint on Plant Communities
      Ragan M. Callaway, Timothy G. Howard
      Pages 317-335
    3. Quaternary Palaeoecology: Isotopes as Valuable Aids in Palaeoecological Research
      Burkhard Frenzel
      Pages 336-355

About this book

Introduction

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, systematics, ecology, and vegetation science.

Keywords

Allelopathy Ecology Tree algae evolution morphogenesis physiology regulation systematics vegetation

Editors and affiliations

  • K. Esser
    • 1
  • U. Löttge
    • 2
  • W. Beyschlag
    • 3
  • Jin Murata
    • 4
  1. 1.Lehrstuhl för Allgemeine BotanikRuhr UniversitätBochumGermany
  2. 2.TU DarmstadtInstitut för Botanik, FB Biologie (10)DarmstadtGermany
  3. 3.Fakultät för BiologieLehrstuhl för Experimentelle Ökologie und Ökosystembiologie Universität BielefeldBielefeldGermany
  4. 4.Botanical GardensGraduate School of Science, University of TokyoTokyoJapan

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36832-8
  • Copyright Information Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2007
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Biomedical and Life Sciences
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-36830-4
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-36832-8
  • Series Print ISSN 0340-4773
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