Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 10, The Plant Cytoskeleton in Cell Differentiation and Development (eBook)

Professor Patrick Hussey is in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Durham, UK.

Part 1. The cytoskeleton: the machinery and key molecules.

Microtubules and microtubule-associated proteins.

Clive Lloyd and Jordi Chan, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK and
Patrick J. Hussey, Department of Biological Sciences, University of
Durham, UK.

Actin and actin-modulating proteins.

Chris J. Staiger, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue
University, Indiana, USA and Patrick J. Hussey, Department of
Biological Sciences, University of Durham, UK.

Part 2. Fundamental cytoskeleton activities.

Expanding beyond the great divide: the cytoskeleton and axial
growth.

Geoffrey O. Wasteneys and David A. Collings, Research School of
Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia.

Re-staging plant mitosis.

Magdalena Weingarner, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant
Physiology, Golm, Germany, Laszlo Bögre, School of Biological
Sciences, University of London, Surrey, UK and John Doonan, John
Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.

Organelle movements: transport and positioning.

Franz Grolig, Fachbereich Biologie / Botanik,
Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany.

The cell wall: a sensory panel for signal
transduction.

Keiko Sugimoto-Shirasu, Nicholas C. Carpita, Department of
Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Indiana, USA and
Maureen McCann, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.

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Part 3. The cytoskeleton and plant cell
morphogenesis.

Development of root hairs.

Claire Grierson and Tijs Ketelaar, School of Biological
Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.

Signaling the cytoskeleton in pollen tube germination and
growth.

Rui Malhó and Luísa Camacho, Departamento de Biologia
Vegetal, Faculdade de Ciencias de Lisboa, Portugal.

Cytoskeletal requirements during Arabidopsis trichome
development.

Mark Beilstein and Dan Szymanski, Department of Agronomy, Purdue
University, Indiana, USA.

Signaling and the cytoskeleton in guard cells.

Paula Duque, Juan-Pablo Sanchez and Nam-Hai Chua Laboratory of
Plant Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

References.

Index

"The book represents a modern, well-structured and up-to-date collection of information in a field that has rapidly advanced during the last decades, and will acquire additional impact in the field of plant development and morphogenesis." (Peter Nick, Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Botany, University of Karlsruhe, Germany in Journal of Plant Physiology 162 (2005)).