Biology of Adventitious Root Formation

Special Lecture.- The Origin, Diversity, and Biology of Shoot-Borne Roots.- The Commercial Importance of Adventitious Rooting.- Commercial Importance of Adventitious Rooting to Agronomy.- Commercial Application of Adventitious Rooting to Forestry.- Commercial Importance of Adventitious Rooting to Horticulture.- Infrastructure for Research.- Genomic Manipulation of Plant Materials for Adventitious Rooting Research.- Model Systems for Studying Adventitious Root Formation.- Setting the Stage for Rooting.- Novel Experimental Systems for Determining Cellular Competence, and Determination.- Differential Competence for Adventitious Root Formation in Histologically Similar Cell Types.- Biochemical and Molecular Markers of Cellular Competence for Adventitious Rooting.- Manipulating Rooting Potential in Stockplants before Collecting Cuttings.- Induction of Rooting.- Auxin Metabolism and Adventitious Root Initiation.- The ERabp Gene Family: Structural and Physiological Analyses.- Root System Development and Plant Growth.- Use of Transformed Roots for Root Development and Metabolism Studies and Progress in Characterizing Root-Specific Gene Expression.- Control of Root System Architecture through Chemical and Genetic Alterations of Polyamine Metabolism.- Modeling Root System Morphology in Rice.- Modeling Adventitious Root System Development in Trees: Clonal Poplars.- The Role of Expert and Hypertext Systems in Modeling Root-Shoot Interactions, and Carbon Allocation.- Carbon Allocation to Root and Shoot Systems of Woody Plants.- Special Chapter.- A Historical Evaluation of Adventitious Rooting Research to 1993.- Epilogue.- Research on Adventitious Rooting: Where Do We Go from Here?.