Adaptations and Responses of Woody Plants to Environmental Stresses

ABOUT THE BOOK: Adaptations and Responses of Woody Plants to Envrionmental Stresses covers the latest and most significant advances in woody plant stess research. The authors are world-renowned researchers who have made significant contributions to the knowledge of woody plant stress physiology and molecular biology. With figures, tables, graphs, illustrations, and black-and-white and color photos documenting the studies of these researchers and scientists, this book offers a new awareness of the physiology and molecular biology of cold acclimation in woody plants. This book will appeal to graduate students, instructors, and researchers who specialize in plant stress physiology in botany, agriculture, horticulture, landscape design, or forestry.

AUTHOR: Rajeev Arora | ISBN: 9788181891075 | YEAR: 2006 | PAGES: 311 | SIZE: 16 x 22 x 2 cm. | BINDING: Hard | LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rajeev Arora, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Iowa State University. Dr. Arora is the author or co-author of over 50 contributions to scientific journals and is Associate Editor (Developmental Physiology) of Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science. He is also on the editorial board of Tree Physiology. Primary focus of Dr. Arora's research program is to understand the cellular physiology, molecular biology and genetics of plant's response to low temperature stress. His research on the specific membrane perturbations during freeze-thaw injury in herbaceous plants and physiological and genetic analysis of cold acclimation and endodormancy in woody perennials has been published in the leading plant biology journals and is widelly cited. Dr. Arora is a member of American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and American Rhododendron Society, and has presented several invited seminars at national and international conferences on Plant Cold Hardiness research. He has received Outstanding Paper/Research Presentation Awards from USDA-ARS and ASHS and is a recipient of Gamma Sigma Delta Faculty Merit Award.

CONTENTS:
1. Introduction
    Rajeev Arora
2. Ice Nucleation, Propagation, and Deep Supercooling in Woody Plants
    M. Wisniewski, M. Fuller, J. Palta, J. Carter, R. Arora
3. Characterization of a Novel YnSKn Class of Dehydrin-Like cDNAs from Cold Acclimated Red-Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea L.) Xylem
    E. Sarnigliausen, D. T. Karlson, Y. Zeng, P. B. Goldsbrough, K. G. Raghothama, E. N. Ashworth
4. Inheritance of Cold Hardiness and Dehydrin Genes in Diploid Mapping Populations of Blueberry
    Ganesh R. Panta, Lisa J. Rowland, Rajeev Arora, Elizabeth L. Ogclen, Chon-Chong Lim
5. Molecular Genetic and Physiological Analysis of the Cold-Responsive Dehydrins of Blueberry
    L. J. Rowland G. R. Panta S. Mehra C. Pannentier-Line
6. Photoperiodic Regulation of Apical Growth Cessation in Northern Tree Species: The Role of Phytochrome and Gibberellin
    Jorunn E. Olsen, John B. Jensen, Jorgen A. Mblmann, Arild Ernstsen, Olavi Junttila
7. Cell-Cell Communication as a Key Factor in Dormancy Cycling
    Pdivi L H. Rhine, Christiaan van der Schoot
8. Hormones and Endodormancy Induction in Woody Plant
    Karen K. Tanino
9. Freezing Tolerance and Injury in Grapevines
    Anne Fennel
10. Physiology and Regulation of Seasonal Nitrogen Cycling in Woody Plants
    Gary D. Coleman
11. Physiology and Molecular Biology of a Family of Pathogenesis-Related PR-10 Proteins in Conifers
    Abul K. M. Ekramoddoullah
12. Nitrogen Fixation as a Stress-Avoidance Strategy Among Actinorhizal (Non-Legume) Trees and Shrubs
    Heidi A. Kratsch, William R. Graves
13. Index