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The workshop "Genes and their products for tolerance to physical stresses in plants" was held in Maratea, Italy, from 24-27 September 1995. As one of a series of activity launched by the European Science Foundation (ESF) Network "Cell Stress Genes and their Protein Products", the workshop was the only one entirely devoted to research in the plant field. Around one hundred participants from fourteen different countries enjoyed a lively meeting in an atmosphere of sunny Mediterranean weather. A total of twenty-eight speakers from universities and research institutes were invited to present the most recent results of their research. The workshop was divided into eight sessions, namely heat, cold, salt, drought, oxidative stress, light stress, a conclusive session for recommendations and a poster session. The results reported in this workshop broadly showed the rapid progress made in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying basic aspects of the plant response to environmental stresses.
List of contents
1 Heat Stress.- Analysis of Multiple Classes of Soybean Heat Shock Genes and Proteins.- Stress-Induced Activation of Chaperone Genes Implies the Operation of a Novel Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanism in the Cyanobacterium, Synechocystis PCC6803.- Genetic Dissection of Thermotolerance in Maize.- Derepression of the Heat Shock Response and Genetic Engineering of Thermotolerance in Arabidopsis using Recombinant Heat Shock Factor.- 2 Cold Stress.- Physiological and Molecular Response of Barley to Cold and Drought Stress.- Genes for Fatty Acid Desaturases and Choline Oxidase are Responsible for Tolerance to Low- Temperature and Salinity Stresses in Cyanobacteria and Plants.- Marker-Assisted Genetic Analysis of Winter Hardiness in Barley.- Cold Acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana: Function and Regulation of COR Genes.- 3 Salt Stress.- In Search of a Function for Dehydrin TAS14.- Crucial Reactions for Salt Tolerance in Yeast.- Cloning Salt Tolerance Genes by Insertional Mutagenesis Tagging and Gene Complementation.- 4 Drought Stress.- Gene Expression during Dehydration Stress in the Resurrection Plant Craterostigma plantagineum.- Expression of the Maize rabl7 Gene in Response to Abscisic Acid and Osmotic Stress.- The Role of Abscisic Acid in the Regulation of Gene Expression during Drought Stress.- QTL Analysis of Stress Responses as a Method to Study the Importance of Stress-Induced Genes.- Water Stress-Induced Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana.- Regulation of Gene Expression during Cellular Adaptation to Water Stress.- Specific and General Gene Induction in Limiting Environmental Conditions.- Enhanced Desiccation Survival by Engineering Osmolyte Biosynthesis in Plants.- 5 Light Stress.- Transduction of Light Signals in Plants.- Post-Translational Stabilization of ELIPs and Regulation of other Light Stress Genes under Prolonged Light- and Cold Stress in Barley.- Expression of Catalase and its Relation to Light Stress and Stress Tolerance.- 6 Oxidative Stress and Plant Signal Stress.- Post-Transcriptional Regulation by Anoxia of a myb Gene in Rice (Oryza sativa).- Jasmonates - Secondary Messengers in Plant Defense and Stress Reactions.- Signal Perception and Intracellular Transduction in the Phytophthora Sojae/Parsley Interaction.- Author Index.
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"The wide range of contributions in this book are of a high standard, and it will be useful...as a state-of-the-art overview of the subject area." Trends in Plant Sciences
