"Plant Hormones"

Biosynthesis, Signal Transduction, Action!

edited by Davies, P.J.

Springer, 2005. $89.95 (softcover), $269.00 (Hardcover) + shipping ($8.00, U.S. or $15.00 Elsewhere)

Plant hormones play a crucial role in controlling the way in which plants grow and develop. While metabolism provides the power and building blocks for plant life, it is the hormones that regulate the speed of growth of the individual parts and integrate them to produce the form that we recognize as a plant.

This book is a description of these natural chemicals: how they are synthesized and metabolized, how they act at both the organismal and molecular levels, how we measure them, a description of some of the roles they play in regulating plant growth and development, and the prospects for the genetic engineering of hormone levels or responses in crop plants. This is the third edition of the highly acclaimed text/monograph last published in 1995 under the title "Plant Hormones: Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology". Two-thirds of the thirty-one chapters, written by a group of fifty-two international experts, are totally new, and all other chapters have been completely rewritten to include the latest information on Plant Hormones, particularly with reference to such new topics as signal transduction, brassinosteroids, responses to disease, and expansins. The book is not a conference proceedings but a selected collection of newly written, carefully integrated and illustrated reviews describing our knowledge of plant hormones and the experimental work that is the foundation of this information.

Contents

A. Introduction. 1 The plant hormones: Their nature, occurrence and function; Peter J. Davies. 2 Regulatory factors in hormone action: Level, location and signal transduction; Peter J. Davies. B. Hormone Biosynthesis, Metabolism, and Its Regulation.1 Auxin biosynthesis and metabolism; Jennifer Normanly, Janet P. Slovin and Jerry D. Cohen, 2 Gibberellin biosynthesis and inactivation; Valerie M. Sponsel and Peter Hedden, 3 Cytokinin biosynthesis and metabolism; Hitoshi Sakakibara, 4 Ethylene biosynthesis; Jean-Claude Pech, Mondher Bouzayen and Alain Latché, 5 Abscisic acid biosynthesis and metabolism; Steven H. Schwartz and Jan A.D. Zeevaart, 6 Brassinosteroids biosynthesis and metabolism; Sunghwa Choe, 7 Regulation of gibberellin and brassinosteroid biosynthesis by genetic, environmental and hormonal factors; James B. Reid, Gregory M. Symons and John J. Ross. C. The Final Action of Hormones.1 Auxin and cell elongation; Robert E. Cleland, 2 Gibberellin action in germinating cereal grains; Fiona Woodger, John V. Jacobsen, and Frank Gubler, 3 Cytokinin regulation of the cell division cycle; Luc Roef and Harry Van Onckelen, 4 Expansins as agents of hormone action; Hyung-Taeg Cho and Daniel Cosgrove. D. Hormone Signal Transduction, 1 Auxin signal transduction; Gretchen Hagen, Tom J. Guilfoyle and William M. Gray, 2 Gibberellin signal transduction in stem elongation and leaf growth; Tai-Ping Sun, 3 Cytokinin signal transduction; Bridey B. Maxwell and Joseph J. Kieber, 4 Ethylene signal transduction in stem elongation; Ramlah Nehring and Joseph R. Ecker, 5 Ethylene signal transduction in flowers and fruits; Harry J. Klee and David G. Clark, 6 Abscisic acid signal transduction in stomatal responses; Sarah M. Assmann, 7 Brassinosteroid signal transduction; Steven D. Clouse. E. The Functioning of Hormones in Plant Growth and Development, 1 Auxin transport; David A. Morris, Jirí Friml and Eva Zažímalová, 2 The induction of vascular tissues by auxin; Roni Aloni, 3 Hormones and the regulation of water balance; Ian C. Dodd and William J. Davies, 4 The role of hormones during seed development and germination; Ruth R. Finkelstein, 5 The role of hormones in potato (Solanum) tuberization; Salomé Prat, 6 The hormonal regulation of senescence; Susheng Gan, 7 Crop growth mutants governed by the regulation of hormone level or response; Andy L. Phillips. F. The Roles of Hormones in Defense Against Insects and Disease, 1 Jasmonates; Gregg A. Howe, 2 Salicylic acid; Terrence P. Delaney. 3 Peptide hormones; Clarence A. Ryan and Gregory Pearce. G. Hormone Analysis.1 Methods of plant hormone analysis; Karin Ljung, Göran Sandberg and Thomas Moritz

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