Progress in Botany 69

Ulrich Lüttge, Wolfram Beyschlag, Jin Murata (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 479 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-09204-6 (ISBN)

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With regard to global climate changes, one of our future challenges will be to develop crop plants that cope better with changing environmental conditions. Abiotic stress is estimated to be the primary cause of crop loss worldwide, with the potential to cause a reduction of more than 50% in the average yield of the main crops. Climatic extremes are known to trigger senescence processes. Many different agriculturally important traits are affected by senescence, like number and quality of seeds, timing of seed set, fruit ripening, etc. . Despite the importance of the sen- cence processes, our knowledge on the regulatory mechanisms of senescence is still poor. However, senescence is not a chaotic breakdown, but an orderly loss of normal cell functions. In contrast to aging processes which have a passive and non-regulated degenerative character (for a review, see Krupinska et al. 2003), senescence is an active and highly regulated process. Senescence can be initiated by exogenous and endogenous triggers. The most important endogenous factors inducing senescence are the age of the leaves and the age and developmental stage of the plant. The leaves of annual plants show a continuous decrease in their photosynthesis rate after full expansion (Batt and Woolhause 1975; Hensel et al. 1993). In fast-aging plants like Arabidopsis, photosynthetic capacity of the leaves decreases by 50% within 4-6 days of full leaf expansion under continuous light conditions (Hensel et al. 1993).

Ulrich Lüttge lehrte bis zum Jahr 2004 als Ordinarius am Institut für Botanik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Ulrich Lüttges Arbeitsgruppe beschäftigt sich u.a mit Membranphysiologie und -biochemie, circadianer Rhythmik von Photosyntheseprozessen sowie dem antioxidativen Verteidigungssystem der Pflanze.

Review.- Ecophysiology: Migrations Between Different Levels of Scaling.- Genetics.- Variability of Recombination Rates in Higher Plants.- Functional Markers in Resistance Breeding.- Extranuclear Inheritance: Plastid-Nuclear Cooperation in Photosystem I Assembly in Photosynthetic Eukaryotes.- Molecular Cell Biology: Are Reactive Oxygen Species Regulators of Leaf Senescence?.- Physiology.- Application of Laser-Assisted Microdissection for Tissue and Cell-Specific Analysis of RNA, Proteins, and Metabolites.- Plasma Membrane Redox Systems: Lipid Rafts and Protein Assemblies.- Subcellular Sites of Environmental Sensing.- Oxidative Stress and Salt Tolerance in Plants.- Crassulacean Acid Metabolism: a Cause or Consequence of Oxidative Stress in Planta?.- Cuscuta spp: "Parasitic Plants in the Spotlight of Plant Physiology, Economy and Ecology".- Ecology.- Bayesian Data-Model Integration in Plant Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology.- Quaternary Palaeoecology: Africa and its Surroundings.- The Application of Novel Optical Sensors (Optodes) in Experimental Plant Ecology.- Indirect Defence - Recent Developments and Open Questions.- Functional Differences in Soil Water Pools: a New Perspective on Plant Water Use in Water-Limited Ecosystems.- Plant Herbivore Interactions at the Forest Edge.- Getting Plant-Soil Feedbacks out of the Greenhouse: Experimental and Conceptual Approaches.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Progress in Botany
Zusatzinfo	XII, 479 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	737 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
Schlagworte	Ecology • Environment • eukaryote • geobotany • Physiology • plant ecology • Plant genetics • Plant morphology • Plant Physiology • Protein • recombination • Systematics • Vegetation
ISBN-10	3-642-09204-7 / 3642092047
ISBN-13	978-3-642-09204-6 / 9783642092046
Zustand	Neuware