Handbook of Plant Growth - pH as the Master Variable

Hard Cover  472 pp  ISBN 0824707613      £107.00

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This reference explores the molecular, biochemical, functional, structural, and developmental mechanisms of pH in plant growth - examining the role of pH in plant symplasm, plant apoplasm, the rhizosphere, the ecosystem, and in plant interaction with biotic and abiotic environments.

The Handbook of Plant Growth discusses the:

• dynamics of H+ fluxes across membranes such as the plasma membrane, tonoplast, mitochondria, and chloroplast thylakoid
• interdependence of pH dynamics and soil abiotic systems
• effect of pH fluxes on soil-plant-microbe interactions
• physiological properties of vacuolar proton pumps
• maintenance and regulation of stable cytoplasmic pH
• current methods for the imaging of intracellular Ph

Analyzing the complexities of plant life from biological processes to cell organelles and molecules, the Handbook of Plant Growth is an excellent and authoritative reference plant, crop, soil, and environmental scientists; plant and crop physiologists; botanists; agronomists; agriculturists; horticulturists; biochemists; foresters; and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and continuing-education students in these disciplines.

Contents

H+-ATPases in the Plasma Membrane: Physiology and Molecular Biology
Thomas Jahn and Michael Gjedde Palmgren

H+-ATPase and H+-PPase in the Vacuolar Membrane: Physiology and Molecular Biology
Masayoshi Maeshima and Yoichi Nakanishi

The Cytoplasmic pH Stat
Robert J. Reid and F. Andrew Smith

Confocal pH Topography in Plant Cells: Shifts of Proton Distribution Involved in Plant Signaling
Werner Roos

pH as a Signal and Regulator of Membrane Transport
Hubert H. Felle

The Role of the Apoplastic pH in Cell Wall Extension and Cell Enlargement
Robert E. Cleland

Mechanisms and Physiological Roles of Proton Movements in Plant Thylakoid Membranes
W. S. Chow and Alexander B. Hope

Dynamics of H+ Fluxes in Mitochondrial Membrane
Francis E. Sluse and Wieslawa Jarmuszkiewicz

H+ Fluxes in Nitrogen Assimilation by Plants
Fernando Gallardo and Francisco M. Cánovas

Crassulacean Acid Metabolism: A Special Case of pH Regulation and H+ Fluxes
Karl-Josef Dietz and Dortje Golldack

Dynamics of H+ Fluxes in the Plant Apoplast
Jóska Gerendás and Burkhard Sattelmacher

H+ Currents around Plant Roots
Miguel A. Piñeros and Leon V. Kochian

Role of pH in Availability of Ions in Soil
Zdenko Rengel

Regulation of Microbial Processes by Soil pH
David E. Crowley and Samuel A. Alvey

The Role of Acid pH in Symbiosis between Plants and Soil Organisms
Karen G. Ballen and Peter H. Graham

Distribution of Plant Species in Relation to pH of Soil and Water
Jacqueline Baar and Jan G. M. Roelofs

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