Trigonometry, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780470648025 | 0470648023
Edition: 3Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 9/1/2011
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Commencing with a chapter which places Physcomitrella into phylogenetic position, this important publication then covers the following major topics. Population genetics, genome, transcripts and metabolomics, gene targeting, hormones, small RNAs, tip growth, chloroplasts, sporophyte development, desiccation and oxidative stress, sugar metabolism, and pathogenesis. With chapters contributed by many of the World's leading workers in the area, this landmark book is essential reading for all those studying plant evolutionary biology, genomics, molec... MORE
| Contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Glossary | |
| Putting Physcomitrella patens on the Tree of Life: The Evolution and Ecology of Mosses | |
| Introduction to Physcomitrella | |
| The position of P. patens on the tree of life | |
| Relationships within the mosses | |
| Evolution and ecology of the mosses | |
| General implications for evolutionary processes in mosses | ... MORE |
| The Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in Bryophyte Model Systems | |
| Introduction | |
| Genetic variation among bryophyte populations | |
| Mapping genes underlying natural variants | |
| Assigning genes to phenotypes | |
| Comparative Genomics | |
| Introduction | |
| A short history of P. patens genomics | |
| Features of the P. patens nuclear genome | |
| Comparisons with seed plants and algae | |
| Computational resources for P. patens | |
| Conclusions and outlook | |
| Gene Targeting | |
| Introduction | |
| Gene targeting in eukaryotes | |
| Gene targeting in P. patens: practical aspects | |
| Targeted gene replacement versus targeted insertion | |
| Mechanisms of gene targeting | |
| Unanswered questions and future prospects | |
| The Small RNAs of Physcomitrella patens: Expression, Function and Evolution | |
| Introduction to small RNAs | |
| Classes of small silencing RNAs | |
| Expression of P. patens small RNAs | |
| Biogenesis of P. patens small RNAs: Dicers, Slicers and other utensils | |
| Targets of P. patens small RNAs | |
| Evolution of plant miRNAs | |
| Conclusions | |
| Tip Growth in the Moss Physcomitrella patens | |
| Introduction | |
| Morphology and structure of a tip cell | |
| Environmental signals affecting polar cell elongation | |
| Cellular structural components involved in polar cell elongation | |
| Gametangia Development in the Moss Physcomitrella patens | |
| Introduction | |
| Development of the gametangia | |
| Development of the gametangia after fertilization is accompanied by growth of the sporophyte | |
| Gene-trap lines with GUS expression in the gametangia | |
| Future prospects | |
| Chloroplasts | |
| Chloroplasts of Physcomitrella patens | |
| Plastid DNA | |
| Transcription of plastid genes by two plastid RNA polymerases PEP and NEP | |
| Rhythmic expression of the plastid PSBD gene | |
| Post-transcriptional regulation in plastids | |
| Plastid transformation | |
| Chloroplast import | |
| Plastid division | |
| Chloroplast movement | |
| Carbon and Energy Metabolism | |
| Introduction | |
| Carbon and energy allocation | |
| Sucrose metabolism and transport | |
| Hexose metabolism and transport | |
| Energy homeostasis and Snf1-related kinases | |
| Conclusions | |
| Technical note on database searches and tree construction | |
| Hormonal Regulation of Development by Auxin and Cytokinin in Moss | |
| Major plant hormone routes are established in bryophytes | |
| Auxin | |
| Cytokinin | |
| Auxin and cytokinin interaction | |
| Other growth regulating substances | |
| The Role of Abscisic Acid in Stress Tolerance | |
| Introduction | |
| Tolerance of P. patens to abiotic stresses and the effects of ABA | |
| Physiological and morphological changes during the establishment of tolerance | |
| Expression of stress-related genes | |
| Global responses to stress at the transcription level | |
| The ABA-signalling pathway | |
| Conclusions | |
| Pathogenesis in Mosses | |
| Introduction | |
| Recent advances in molecular plant pathology | |
| Experimental advantages of P. patens | |
| Developing a P. patens pathosystem | |
| Responses of P. patens to infection | |
| Selecting P. patens genes for functional studies of disease | |
| Future directions and opportunities | |
| Index | |
| Color plates | |
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