Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik - Behnke, H. -Dietmar

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Sommaire:
Review.- Botanical Aspects of Landscape Ecology with Outlooks on Forest Dieback.- A. Physiology.- I. Plant Water Relations: Metabolic Responses to Water Deficit and Surplus.- II. The Leaf Epidermis: its Ecophysiologieal Significance.- III. Developmental Physiology: Regulation of Polar Cell Growth and Morphogenesis.- IV. Intracellular Movement.- V. Thermotropic Responses of Biomembranes Exemplified by the Tonoplast of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plants.- VI. Nitrate or Ammonium Uptake and Transport, and Rapid Regulation of Nitrate Reduction in Higher Plants.- VII. Secondary Plant Substances: Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids.- VIII. Carbohydrate Processing in the Mesophyll Trajectory in Symplasmic and Apoplasmic Phloem Loading.- B. Genetics.- I. DNA Replication and DNA Repair.- II. Recombination: Novel Gene and Genome Combinations for Resistance Breeding by Hybridization and Genetic Transformation.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Introgression of Foreign Genes for Disease and Pest Resistance by Interspecific Hybridization.- a) Sexual Hybridization and Embryo Rescue.- b) Somatic Hybridization.- 3. Genetically Engineered Resistance.- 4. Interspecific Hybridization Versus Transformation.- 5. Conclusions and Future Prospects.- References.- III. Extranuclear Inheritance: Plastid Genetics.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Results of Sequencing the Plastid Genomes of a Gymnosperm and Two Algae.- 3. Plastome Mutants of Higher Plants and the Elucidation of Their Molecular Basis.- 4. RNA Editing in Plastids.- 5. Plastid Transformation: Advances and Applications.- References.- IV. Molecular Cell Biology: Signal Transduction in Plants.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Cytosolic Ca2+ as Second Messenger.- 3. GTP-Binding Proteins: a Broad Protein Family.- 4. Nuclear Pores and Nuclear Transport of Proteins.- 5. Conclusions.- References.- V. Genetics of Phytopathogenic Fungi.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Molecular Diversity of Fungi.- 3. Genetic Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interaction.- 4. Perspectives.- References.- C. Taxonomy.- I. Flower Evolution.- II. Systematics and Evolution of the Algae: Endocytobiosis and Evolution of the Major Algal Lineages.- III. Lichenized and Lichenicolous Fungi 1993-1994.- D. Geobotany.- I. Seed, Pollen, and Clonal Dispersal and Their Role in Structuring Plant Populations.- E. Special Topics.- I. Phloem in Plant Tissue Cultures.- IL Floral Ecology.- Report on the Years 1992 (1991) to 1994 (1995).- References.