Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

"Understanding the mechanisms whereby plant development is regulated is crucial for crop improvement using genetic engineering. This work, comprising two volumes, reviews recent advances in plant developmental biology and explores the possibility of their practical applications from biotechnological perspectives. Volume 1 deals with the plant model and its life cycle. Topics include the formation of shoots, roots, flowers and gametes, pollen germination, fertilization, fruit development and ripening, seed development, dormancy and germination, apomixis, male sterility and self-incompatibility. This work is a key reference for plant breeders, researchers and graduate students in the fields of plant biotechnology, agronomy, horticulture, genetics and functional genomics, and cell and molecular biology."--NHBS Environment Bookstore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

V. 1. Section I. Models for plant development. Gene regulatory models for plant development and evolution / E.R. Alvarez-Buylla [and others] -- 2. Arabidopsis as model for developmental regulation and crop improvement / C.M. Liu -- Section II. Vegetative growth and development 3. Axillary shoot branching in plants / M.W.F. Yaish [and others] -- 4. Bud dormancy and growth / D.P. Horvath -- 5. Root development / L. Jansen [and others] -- 6. Legume nodule development / K. D'Haeseleer, S. Goormachtig, and M. Holsters -- 7. Tuber development / W.L. Morris and M.A. Taylor -- 8. Senescence / C. Zhou and S. Gan -- Section III. Reproductive growth and development. 9. Floral organ initiation and development / M. Bemer and G.C. Angenent -- 10. Flowering regulation / H. Yamashita and Y. Komeda -- 11. Development and function of the female gametophyte / N. Sánchez-León and J.-P. Vielle-Calzada -- 12. Male gametophyte development / D. Twell -- 13. Pollen germination and tube growth / D.-Q. Shi and W.-C. Yang -- 14. Fertilization in angiosperms / S.D. Russell -- 15. Fruit development / H. Ezura and K. Hiwasa-Tanase -- 16. Mechanism of fruit ripening / M. Bouzayen [and others] -- 17. Seed development / B. Dubreucq [and others] -- 18. Seed dormancy: approaches for finding new genes in cereals / J.M. Barrero, J. Jacobsen, and F. Gubler -- 19. Seed germination / R.C. Martin, W.E. Pluskota, and H. Nonogaki -- 20. Apomixis in the era of biotechnology / E. Albertini [and others] -- 21. Male sterility / C.D. Chase, A. Ribarits, and E. Heberle-Bors -- 22. Self-incompatibility in flowering plants / P. Kaothien-Nakayama, A. Isogai, and S. Takayama -- volume 2. Developmental biology of somatic embryogenesis / R.J. Rose [and others] -- Microspore embryogenesis / A. Olmedilla -- Stress and somaclonal variation / A.M. Vázquez and R. Linacero -- Photosynthate partitioning / N.G. Halford -- Molecular physiology of seed maturation and seed storage protein biosynthesis / H. Weber, N. Sreenivasula, and W. Weschke -- Fatty acid biosynthesis and regulation in plants / R. Rajasekharan and V. Nachiappan -- Biosynthesis and regulation of carotenoids in plants -- micronutrients, vitamins and health benefits / C.I. Cazzonelli [and others] -- Biosynthesis and regulation of alkaloids / G. Guirimand [and others] -- Molecular biology and biotechnology of flower pigments / K.M. Davies and K.E. Schwinn -- Biosynthesis and regulation of flower scnet / B. Piechulla and U. Effmert -- Amino compound-containing lipids : a novel class of signals regulating plant development / R. Ortiz-Castro, A. Méndez-Bravo, and J. López-Bucio -- The roles of YUCCA genes in local auxin biosynthesis and plant development / Y. Zhao -- Role of cytokinin in the regulation of plant development / T. Kiba and H. Sakakibara -- Light signalling in plant developmental regulation / A. Galstyan and J.F. Martínez-Garcia -- RNA silencing in plants / A. Eamens, S.J. Curtain, and P.M. Waterhouse -- DNA methylation : a dynamic regulator of genome organization and gene expression in plants / E.J. Finnegan -- Molecular mechanisms in epigenetic regulation of plant growth and development / A. Berr and W.H. Shen -- Activation tagging for gain-of-function mutants / N. Marsch-Martínez and A. Pereira -- Regulatory mechanisms of homologous recombination in higher plants / K. Osakabe [and others] -- Synthetic promoter engineering / M. Venter and F.C. Botha.