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Biochemical Society Symposia Volume 60
Molecular Botany: Signals and the Environment

Edited By DJ Bowles, JP Knox and PM Gilmartin

University of York, UK and University of Leeds, UK

Biochemical Society Symposia

Molecular Botany provides a thorough overview of the ways in which environmental stimuli lead to changes within plants. A range of topics are addressed, encompassing the role of the cell wall and glycans in signalling events through to the molecular events regulating defence-gene activation and developmental programming.

Contents:

• Cell wall structural proteins: can we deduce function from sequence?
  JE Varner
  
• Oligosaccharins as plant growth regulators SC Fry
  
• Molecular and structural features of the pistal of Nicotiana alata AH Atkinson et al.
  
• Developmental dynamics of plant cell-surface glycoproteins: towards a molecular plant anatomy JP Knox
  
• Glycoprotein domains and their role in gamete recognition in Fucus JA Callow et al.
  
• Formation of embryonic cells in plant tissue cultures S de Vries et al.
  
• Lipo-oligosaccharide signalling: the mediation of recognition and nodule organogenesis induction in the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis J Dénarié et al.
  
• Bacterial and plant glycoconjugates at the Rhizobium-legume interface
  NJ Brewin et al.
  
• Barley-fungal interactions: signals and the environment of the host- pathogen interface S Gurr et al.
  
• Oligosaccharins involved in plant growth and host-pathogen interactions
  A Darvill et al.
  
• Systemic signals condition plant cells for increased elicitation of phenylpropanoid defence responses H Kauss
  
• Characterization of hepta-ß-glucoside elicitor-binding protein(s) in soybean MG Hahn et al.
  
• Cytosolic protons as secondary messengers in elicitor-induced defence responsesY Mathieu et al.
  Signal transduction pathways in plant pathogenesis response R Fluhr et al.
  Signals involved in the wound-induced expression of the proteinase inhibitor II gene of potato H Peña-Cortés et al.
  
• Polypeptide signalling for plant defence genes B McGurl et al.
  
• Signalling events in the wound response of tomato plants DJ Bowles
  
• Regulation of gene expression in ripening fruits by sense and antisense genes D Grierson
  
• Perception and transduction of an elicitor signal in cultured parsley cells T Nürnberger et al.
  
• Ion channels and calcium signalling in plants: multiple pathways and cross-talk D Sanders et al.
  
• Using T-DNA tagging to search for genes involved in the mechanism of phytohormone action R Walden et al.
  
• Molecular biology of resistance to potato virus X in potato D Baulcombe et al.
  
• Induction, modification and perception of the salicylic acid signal in plant defence DF Klessig et al.
  
• Regulation of gene expression in bacterial pathogens M Daniels et al.
  
  

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