Cellular Integration of Signalling Pathways in Plant Development

1 Protein Sorting and Post-translation Modification.- Mechanisms for the Transport of Soluble Proteins to the Vacuole in Plants.- Aquaporins: Their Role and Regulation in Cellular Water Movement.- Transport of Cytoplasmically Synthesized Proteins into Chloroplasts.- 2 Membrane Channels and Pumps.- On the Structure and Function of Plant K+ Channels.- Integration of Ion Channel Activity in Calcium Signalling Pathways.- Protein Kinase and Phosphatase Regulation During Abscisic Acid Signaling and Ion Channel Regulation in Guard Cells.- 3 Signal Transduction.- UV and Blue Light Signal Transduction in the Regulation of Flavonoid Biosynthesis Gene Expression in Arabidopsis.- Molecular Approaches to Biochemical Purification: the COP9 Complex Paradigm.- 4 Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Pathways.- Silencing of Gene Expression in the Anthocyanin Regulatory Gene Families.- Quelling: Transgene-Induced Gene Silencing in Neurospora crassa.- Import and Editing of Plant Mitochondrial Transfer RNAs.- mRNA Decay Machinery in Plants: Approaches and Potential Components.- 5 The Regulation and Manipulation of the Biosynthetic Pathways.- Molecular Cloning and Characterization of two cDNAs Encoding Enzymes Required for Secondary Cell Wall Biosynthesis in Maize.- Dissecting Light Repression of the Asparagine Synthetase Gene (AS1) in Arabidopsis.- Genetic Approaches to Understanding the Regulation of Tryptophan Biosynthesis.- Indole Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus: the Establishment of a Model System.- 6 Embryogenesis.- Surface Control of Cell Polarity, the Plane of Cell Division, and Cell Fate in Fucus Embryos.- Induction and Progression of Somatic Embryogenesis.- Identification of Genes Expressed During Arabidopsis thaliana Embryogenesis Using Enhancer Trap and Gene TrapDs-Transposons.- 7 Post-embryonic Development.- Clonal Analysis in Plant Development.- Laser Ablation in Arabidopsis Roots: a Tool to Study Cell-to-Cell Communication.- Homeodomain-Leucine Zipper Proteins in the Control of Plant Growth and Development.- 8 Cell-Cell Communication.- Self-Incompatibility: Self/Nonself Discrimination Between Pollen and Pistil.- Intercellular and Intracellular Trafficking: What We Can Learn from Geminivirus Movement.- Signaling During Legume Root Symbiosis.- Alternate Methods of Gene Discovery-the Candidate EST Approach and DNA Microarrays.- Use of Transient Expression in Plants for the Study of the "Gene-for-Gene" Interaction.