Progress in Botany 67 [Hardcover]

Fascination with Chloroplasts and Chromosome Pairing.- Recombination: Cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in higher plants.- Function of genetic material: From genomics to functional markers in maize.- Extranuclear inheritance: Gene transfer out of plastids.- Molecular cell biology: Epigenetic gene silencing in plants.- Genetics of phytopathology: Secondary metabolites as virulence determinants of fungal plant pathogens.- Plant Breeding: MADS ways of memorizing winter: vernalization in weed and wheat.- Biotechnology: Engineered male sterility in plant hybrid breeding.- Membrane turnover in plants.- Besides water: Functions of plant membrane intrinsic proteins and aquaporins.- New insight into auxin perception, signal transduction and transport.- New insights into abiotic stress signalling in plants.- Genetically transformed root cultures  generation, properties and application in plant sciences.- Molecular chaperonesholding and folding.- Recent progress in floristic research in Korea.- Recent progress in systematics in China.- Structural determinants of leaf light-harvesting capacity and photosynthetic potentials.- Recent trends in plant-ecological modelling: Species dynamics in grassland systems.- Atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment effects on ecosystems  experiments and the real world.- Quaternary Palaeoecology: Central and South America, Antarctica and the Pacific Ocean Region.- Biodiversity experiments  artificial constructions or heuristic tools?.- Resource allocation in clonal plants.

A review of the latest results in the major areas of the plant sciences in the past 1-2 years

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