"Microbial Activity in the Rhizosphere"

edited by Mukerji, K.G.; Manoharachary, C.; Singh, J.

Springer, 2006, 349 pages. $179.00 + shipping ($8.00, U.S. or $15.00 Elsewhere)

Plant neurobiology is a newly emerging field of plant sciences. It covers signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization – from molecules up to ecological communities. In this book, plants are presented as intelligent and social organisms with complex forms of communication and information processing.

Authors from diverse backgrounds such as molecular and cellular biology, electrophysiology, as well as ecology treat the most important aspects of plant communication, including the plant immune system, abilities of plants to recognize self, signal transduction, receptors, plant neurotransmitters and plant neurophysiology. Further, plants are able to recognize the identity of herbivores and organize the defence responses accordingly. The similarities in animal and plant neuronal/immune systems are discussed too. All these hidden aspects of plant life and behaviour will stimulate further intense investigations in order to understand the communicative plants in their whole complexity.

CONTENTS

1 The Green Plant as an Intelligent Organism

2 Neurobiological View of Plants and Their Body Plan

3 Charles Darwin and the Plant Root Apex: Closing a Gap in Living Systems Theory as Applied to Plants

4 How Can Plants Choose the Most Promising Organs?

5 The Role of Root Apices in Shoot Growth Regulation: Support for Neurobiology at the Whole Plant Level?

6 Signals and Targets Triggered by Self-Incompatibility in Plants: Recognition of “Self ” Can Be Deadly

7 Signal Perception and Transduction in Plant Innate Immunity

8 Nitric Oxide Involvement in Incompatible Plant–Pathogen Interactions

9 From Cell Division to Organ Shape: Nitric Oxide Is Involved in Auxin-Mediated Root Development

10 Neurotransmitters, Neuroregulators and Neurotoxins in Plants

11 Amino Acid Transport in Plants and Transport of Neurotransmitters in Animals: a Common Mechanism?

12 GABA and GHB Neurotransmitters in Plants and Animals

13 The Arabidopsis thaliana Glutamate-like Receptor Family (AtGLR)

14 Similarities Between Endocannabinoid Signaling in Animal Systems and N-Acylethanolamine Metabolism in Plants

15 Regulation of Plant Growth and Development by Extracellular Nucleotides

16 Physiological Roles of Nonselective Cation Channels in the Plasma Membrane of Higher Plants

17 Touch-Responsive Behaviors and Gene Expression in Plants

18 Oscillations in Plants

19 Electrical Signals in Long-Distance Communication in Plants

20 Slow Wave Potentials – a Propagating Electrical Signal Unique to Higher Plants

21 Electrical Signals, the Cytoskeleton, and Gene Expression: a Hypothesis on the Coherence of the Cellular Responses to Environmental Insult

22 Characteristics and Functions of Phloem-Transmitted Electrical Signals in Higher Plants

23 Long-Distance Signal Transmission in Trees

24 Electrophysiology and Phototropism

25 Hydro-Electrochemical Integration of the Higher Plant – Basis for Electrogenic Flower Induction

26 Signals and Signalling Pathways in Plant Wound Responses

27 Root Exudation and Rhizosphere Biology: Multiple Functions of a Plant Secondary Metabolite

28 Communication Between Undamaged Plants by Volatiles: the Role of Allelobiosis

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