Low-Oxygen Stress in Plants: Oxygen Sensing and Adaptive Responses to Hypoxia

✍ Scribed by Monika Kosmacz, Daan A. Weits (auth.), Joost T. van Dongen, Francesco Licausi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 419
• Series: Plant Cell Monographs 21
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the last ten years, knowledge about the multitude of adaptive responses of plants to low oxygen stress has grown immensely. The oxygen sensor mechanism has been discovered, the knowledge about the interaction network of gene expression is expanding and metabolic adaptations have been described in detail. Furthermore, morphological changes were investigated and the regulative mechanisms triggered by plant hormones or reactive oxygen species have been revealed. This book provides a broad overview of all these aspects of low oxygen stress in plants. It integrates knowledge from different disciplines such as molecular biology, biochemistry, ecophysiology and agricultural / horticultural sciences to comprehensively describe how plants cope with low oxygen stress and discuss its ecological and agronomical consequences. This book is written for plant scientists, biochemists and scientists in agriculture and ecophysiology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Oxygen Perception in Plants....Pages 3-17
Oxidative Stress Components Explored in Anoxic and Hypoxic Global Gene Expression Data....Pages 19-39
Low Oxygen Stress, Nonsymbiotic Hemoglobins, NO, and Programmed Cell Death....Pages 41-58
Intracellular pH Regulation of Plant Cells Under Anaerobic Conditions....Pages 59-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Transcriptional Regulation Under Low Oxygen Stress in Plants....Pages 77-93
Selective mRNA Translation Tailors Low Oxygen Energetics....Pages 95-115
Role of Ethylene and Other Plant Hormones in Orchestrating the Responses to Low Oxygen Conditions....Pages 117-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Insights into Algal Fermentation....Pages 135-163
Hypoxic Energy Metabolism and PPi as an Alternative Energy Currency....Pages 165-184
Oxygen Consumption Under Hypoxic Conditions....Pages 185-208
Adaptations of Nitrogen Metabolism to Oxygen Deprivation in Plants....Pages 209-221
Adaptation of Storage Metabolism to Oxygen Deprivation....Pages 223-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Aerenchyma Formation in Plants....Pages 247-265
Plant Internal Oxygen Transport (Diffusion and Convection) and Measuring and Modelling Oxygen Gradients....Pages 267-297
Biogenesis of Adventitious Roots and Their Involvement in the Adaptation to Oxygen Limitations....Pages 299-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Underwater Photosynthesis and Internal Aeration of Submerged Terrestrial Wetland Plants....Pages 315-327
Different Survival Strategies Amongst Plants to Cope with Underwater Conditions....Pages 329-349
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Hypoxic Storage of Fruit....Pages 353-369
Low Oxygen Stress in Horticultural Practice....Pages 371-380
Inducing Hypoxic Stress Responses by Herbicides That Inhibit Amino Acid Biosynthesis....Pages 381-394
Front Matter....Pages 395-395
Methods and Techniques to Measure Molecular Oxygen in Plants....Pages 397-417
Back Matter....Pages 419-426

✦ Subjects

Plant Physiology; Plant Biochemistry; Plant Ecology