A Wandering Pathway in Plant Biology: From Wildflowers to
Phototropins to Bacterial Virulence
Winslow R. Briggs ............................................ 1
Structure and Function of Plant Photoreceptors
Andreas Möglich, Xiaojing Yang, Rebecca A. Ayers, and
Keith Moffat ................................................ 21
Auxin Biosynthesis and Its Role in Plant Development
Yunde Zhao .................................................. 49
Computational Morphodynamics: A Modeling Framework to
Understand Plant Growth
Vijay Chickarmane, Adrienne H.K. Roeder, Paul T. Tarr,
Alexandre Cunha, Cory Tobin, and Elliot M. Meyerowitz ....... 65
Female Gametophyte Development in Flowering Plants
Wei-Cai Yang, Dong-Qiao Shi, and Yan-Hong Chen .............. 89
Doomed Lovers: Mechanisms of Isolation and Incompatibility in
Plants
Kirsten Bomblies ........................................... 109
Chloroplast RNA Metabolism
David B. Stern, Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont, and Maureen
R. Hanson .................................................. 125
Protein Transport into Chloroplasts
Hsou-min Li and Сhi-Chou Chiu .............................. 157
The Regulation of Gene Expression Required for C4
Photosynthesis
Julian M. Hibberd and Sarah Covshoff ....................... 181
Starch: Its Metabolism, Evolution, and Biotechnological
Modification in Plants
Samuel C. Zeeman, Jens Kossmann, and Alison M. Smith ....... 209
Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield
Xin-Guang Zhu, Stephen P. Long, and Donald R. Ort .......... 235
Hemicelluloses
Henrik Vibe Scheller and Peter Ulvskov ..................... 263
Diversification of P450 Genes During Land Plant Evolution
Masaharu Mizutani and Daisaku Ohta ......................... 291
Evolution in Action: Plants Resistant to Herbicides
Stephen B. Powles and Qin Yu ............................... 317
Insights from the Comparison of Plant Genome Sequences
Andrew H. Paterson, Michael Freeling, Haibao Tang, and
Xiyin Wang ................................................. 349
High-Throughput Characterization of Plant Gene Functions
by Using Gain-of-Function Technology
Youichi Kondou, Mieko Higuchi, andMinami Matsui ............ 373
Histone Methylation in Higher Plants
Chunyan Liu, Falong Lu, Xia Cui, and Xiaofeng Cao .......... 395
Genetic and Molecular Basis of Rice Yield
Yongzhong Xing and Qifa Zhang .............................. 421
Genetic Engineering for Modern Agriculture: Challenges and
Perspectives
Ron Mittler and Eduardo Blumwald ........................... 443
Metabolomics for Functional Genomics, Systems Biology, and
Biotechnology
Kazuki Saito and Fumio Matsuda ............................. 463
Quantitation in Mass-Spectrometry-Based Proteomics
Waltraud X. Schulze and Björn Usadel ....................... 491
Metal Hyperaccumulation in Plants
Ute Krämer ................................................. 517
Arsenic as a Food Chain Contaminant: Mechanisms of Plant
Uptake and Metabolism and Mitigation Strategies
Fang-Jie Zhao, Steve P. McGrath, and Andrew A. Meharg ...... 535
Guard Cell Signal Transduction Network: Advances in
Understanding Abscisic Acid, CO2, and Ca2+ Signaling
Tae-Houn Kim, Maik Böhmer, Hongkong Нu, Noriyuki
Nishimura, and Julian I. Schroeder ......................... 561
The Language of Calcium Signaling
Antony N. Dodd, Jörg Kudla, and Dale Sanders ............... 593
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling in Plants
Maria Cristina Suarez Rodriguez, Morten Petersen, and
John Mundy ................................................. 621
Abscisic Acid: Emergence of a Core Signaling Network
Sean R. Cutler, Pedro L. Rodriguez, Ruth R. Finkelstein,
and Suzanne R. Abrams ...................................... 651
Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction from Receptor Kinases to
Transcription Factors
Tae-Wuk Kim and Zhi-Yong Wang .............................. 681
Directional Gravity Sensing in Gravitropism
Miyo Terao Morita .......................................... 705
Indexes
Cumulative Index of Contributing Authors, Volumes 51-61 ....... 721
Cumulative Index of Chapter Titles, Volumes 51-61 ............. 726
Errata
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