Ebook: Plant Molecular Biology 2

The VI NATO Advanced Study Institute on Plant Molecular Biology, held in Elmau, Bavaria, Germany, from 14 to 23 May, 1990, brought together representative scientific leaders from all over the world to review their lastest results. They presented lectures or posters, participated in lively discussions, educated students, and exchanged views and plans for future research in this highly exciting field of science. The experiments, data and questions were naturally varied, but all of them illustrate that the modern techniques of molecular biology, complemented by developments in immunology, genetics, and ultrastructural research, have pervaded nearly every branch of biology. The presentations show that these approaches have tremendously increased our potential both for fundamental research, our understanding of life, and by analogy to the precedents of physics and chemistry, have led and will continue to lead to "engineering sciences" and implicitly, to new industrial processes. Some of these applications are a matter of debate in the public domain today and many feel that the development of industrial gene technology requires the attention of the whole scientific community. Nevertheless, the implications of this research for the genetic improvement of agricultural plants are profound. Some of the near term technologies being developed provide novel approaches for improving the utility of food crops. They can also result in reduced dependence on the use of pesticides for food production.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Contribution of Plant and Virus Genes to Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Pathogenicity....Pages 1-10
Bromovirus RNA Replication and Host Specificity....Pages 11-21
Analysis of Tobacco Mosaic Virus-Host Interactions by Directed Genome Modification....Pages 23-33
Cell-To-Cell Movement of Plant Viruses....Pages 35-48
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus: A Bunyavirus Invading the Plant Kingdom....Pages 49-56
Origin and Evolution of Defective Interfering RNAs of Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus....Pages 57-66
Self-Cleavage Activities from viral Satellite RNAs....Pages 67-73
Viroid Structures Involved in Protein Binding and Replication....Pages 75-90
Analysis of Viroid Pathogenicity by Genome Modification....Pages 91-100
Tissue-Specific Expression of Early Nodulin Genes....Pages 101-109
Internalization of Rhizobium by Plant Cells: Targeting and Role of Peribacteroid Membrane Nodulins....Pages 111-120
Regulation of Nodule Specific Genes....Pages 121-130
Regulation of Genes for Enzymes Along a Common Nitrogen Metabolic Pathway....Pages 131-137
Molecular Basis of Plant Defense Responses to Fungal Infections....Pages 139-145
Plant Genes Involved in Resistance to Viruses....Pages 147-151
Repeated DNA Sequences and the Analysis of Host Specificity in the Rice Blast Fungus....Pages 153-166
Transgenic Potato Cultivars Resistant to Potato Virus X....Pages 167-178
The Agrobacterium Virulence System....Pages 179-182
T-DNA Gene-Functions....Pages 183-192
Morphogenetic Genes in the T-DNA of Ri Plasmids....Pages 193-204
Transient Expression and Stable Transformation of Maize Using Microprojectiles....Pages 205-209
Agroinfection as a tool for the Investigation of Plant-Pathogen Interactions....Pages 211-218
Physical Mapping of the Arabidopsis Genome and Its Applications....Pages 219-224
Application of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism to Maize Breeding....Pages 225-238
Soybean Genome Analysis: DNA Polymorphisms are Identified by Oligonucleotide Primers of Arbitrary Sequence....Pages 239-248
Genome Analysis in Brassica Using RFLPs....Pages 249-261
Physical Mapping of DNA Sequences on Plant Chromosomes by Light Microscopy and High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy....Pages 263-268
Expression and Regulation of the Maize Spm Transposable Element....Pages 269-276
The Mechanism and Control of Tam3 Transposition....Pages 277-284
Characterization of Mobile Endogenous Copia-Like Transposable Elements in the Genome of Solanaceae....Pages 285-298
Organization and Evolution of the Maize Mitochondrial Genome....Pages 299-308
RNA Editing in Wheat Mitochondria: A New Mechanism for the Modulation of Gene Expression....Pages 309-315
Topological Orientation of the Membrane Protein URF13....Pages 317-332
Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Petunia....Pages 333-343
The Thylakoid Membrane of Higher Plants: Genes, Their Expression and Interaction....Pages 345-363
Greening of Etiolated Monocots — The Impact of Leaf Development on Plastid Gene Expression....Pages 365-373
Regulation of Chloroplast Biogenesis in Barley....Pages 375-381
Chlorophyll Biosynthesis....Pages 383-399
Molecular Approaches to Understand Sink-Source Relations in Higher Plants....Pages 401-410
The Expression of an Ovalbumin and a Seed Protein Gene in the Leaves of Transgenic Plants....Pages 411-427
Regulation of Plant Gene Expression by Antisense RNA....Pages 429-438
Photocontrol of Gene Expression....Pages 439-447
CIS-Regulatory Elements for the Circadian Clock Regulated Transcription of the Wheat CAB-1 Gene....Pages 449-459
Self-Incompatibility as a Model for Cell-Cell Recognition in Flowering Plants....Pages 461-469
Mutations of Knotted Alter Cell Interactions in the Developing Maize Leaf....Pages 471-478
T-DNA Insertion Mutagenesis in Arabidopsis: A Procedure for Unravelling Plant Development....Pages 479-486
Defining the Vacuolar Targeting Signal of Phytohemagglutinin....Pages 487-497
Signals for Protein Import into Organelles....Pages 499-508
Protein Translocation across the Chloroplast Envelope Membrane....Pages 509-517
Protein Transport Across the Thylakoid Membrane....Pages 519-525
Protein Import into Plant Mitochondria....Pages 527-536
Assembly of Maize Storage Proteins into Protein Bodies in Developing Endosperm....Pages 537-544
Genetic and Molecular Studies on Endosperm Storage Proteins in Maize....Pages 545-554
Assembly Properties of Modified Subunits in the Glycinin Subunit Family....Pages 555-562
The Prolamins of the Triticeae (Barley, Wheat and Rye): Structure, Synthesis and Deposition....Pages 563-574
Genes Induced by Abscisic Acid and Water Stress in Maize....Pages 575-582
Molecular Analysis of Desiccation Tolerance in the Resurrection Plant Craterostigma Plantagineum....Pages 583-593
The Anaerobic Responsive Element....Pages 595-603
The Induction of the Heat Shock Response: Activation and Expression of Chimaeric Heat Shock Genes in Transgenic Plants....Pages 605-610
Oxidative Stress in Plants....Pages 611-618
Alkaloids: A New Target for Molecular Biology....Pages 619-625
The Shikimate Pathway’s First Enzyme....Pages 627-634
ACC Synthase Genes in Zucchini and Tomato....Pages 635-640
Back Matter....Pages 641-649
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