Dormancy in Plants: From Whole Plant Behaviour to Cellular Control
Description:
Understanding plant dormancy is of great importance to sustainable and efficient plant and crop growth. This book had developed from papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Plant Dormancy held in Angers in July 1999. It contains up to date research material on this fascinating but little written about subject and is essential reading for those studying and researching plant and seed
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
1 Growth Cycle and Dormancy in Plants 1
2 Bud Dormancy: a Suggestion for the Control Mechanism and its Evolution 23
3 The Distinct Controlling of Dormancy Release and Germination Commencement in Seeds 35
4 Sugar Metabolism in Apple Embryos 47
5 Population Responses to Temperature for Loss and Induction of Seed Dormancy and Consequences for Predictive Empirical Modelling 57
6 Pre-treatment at Controlled Seed Moisture Content as an Effective Means to Break Dormancy in Tree Seeds 69
7 Organismic and Environmental Controls of Bud Growth in Tropical
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8 Water Relations in Winter: Effect on Bud Break of Walnut Tree 109
9 Morphological Structure and Water Status in Tulip Bulbs during their Transition from Dormancy to Active Growth: Visualization by Magnetic Resonance Imaging 121
10 Seed Dormancy as One of the Survival Strategies in Annual Plant Species Occurring in Deserts 139
11 Seasonally Regulated Proteins in Peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch): What Are They and What Do They Do? 161
12 Aspects of ABA and Fusicoccin Signal Transduction in Barley Grains: I Effect of Fusicoccin on ABA-induced Gene Expression in Embryo and Aleurone; II Spatial and Temporal Expression of 14-3-3 Proteins in Dormant Embryos 173
13 Dormancy of Cereal Seeds as Related to Embryo Sensitivity to ABA and Water Potential 183
14 Abscisic Acid Control of Seed Dormancy Expression in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia and Arabidopsis thaliana 195
15 The Role of Endogenous Hormones in Potato Tuber Dormancy 211
16 Role of ABA, Gibberellins and Auxin in Dormancy and Dormancy Release of Tulip Bulbs 227
17 ATP, ADP and NTP Contents in Vegetative and Floral Peach Buds During Winter: Are They Useful for Characterizing the Type of Dormancy? 245
18 Alcohols that Break Seed Dormancy: the Anaesthetic Hypothesis, Dead or Alive? 259
19 Are Cellular Membranes Involved in the Control of Seed Dormancy? 275
20 Intercellular Communication Channels and Intracellular Calcium Levels Involved in the Dormancy Development of Poplar (Populus deltoides) Plants 291
21 The Developmental Basis of Bud Dormancy in 1-year-old Picea and Pseudotsuga Seedlings 313
22 Molecular Genetic Analysis of Bud Dormancy-related Traits in Populus 319
23 Regulation of Growth and Dormancy in Pea Axillary Buds 331
24 Expression of Endo-[beta]-mannanase and SNF-related Protein Kinase Genes in True Potato Seeds in Relation to Dormancy, Gibberellin and Abscisic Acid 347
25 The Genetics of Seed Dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana 365
Index 375