Biochemical and Cellular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants [Paperback]

Environmental stresses, such as high and low temperature, salinity, and drought, represent limiting factors to agricultural productivity worldwide. Their impact is not only on crops that are presently being cultivated, but they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants into noncultivated areas. The book describes the cellular, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms in plants that regulate tolerance to stresses. Also discussed are prospects of engineering stress-tolerant plants through the modification of germplasm.Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Biochemical and Cellular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants, held at Maratea, Italy, June, 20-24, 1993Environmental stresses, such as high and low temperature, salinity, and drought, represent limiting factors to agricultural productivity worldwide. Their impact is not only on crops that are presently being cultivated, but they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants into noncultivated areas. The book describes the cellular, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms in plants that regulate tolerance to stresses. Also discussed are prospects of engineering stress-tolerant plants through the modification of germplasm.1 High Temperature Stress.- The heat stress response as part of the plant stress network: An overview with six tables.- Developmental regulation and enhancement of heat shock gene expression.- Normal cellular protein synthesis and heat shock.- Thermal acclimation and heat stress response of synechocystis PCC6803: The possible role of thylakoid physical state, lipid saturation and molecular chaperones.- Studies of a chloroplast-localized small heat shock protein in arabidopsis.- The low molecular weight heat shock proteins of soybean seedlings.- Class I low molecular weight heat shock proteins in plants: immunological study and thermoprotection against heat denaturation of soluble proteins.- Genetic and molecular evidences of the regulation of gl#$