In order to function and survive, plants produce a wide array of chemical compounds not found in other organisms. Photosynthesis requires a large array of pigments, enzymes, and other compounds to function, and these chemicals have multiple practical uses in the human world as well, with applications to agriculture, forestry, and horticulture. This book presents an important collection of research and studies on the physiology of photosynthesis.

CONTENTS: Chloroplast Two-Component Systems:Evolution of the Link Between Photosynthesis and Gene Expression • Ecological Selection Pressures for C4 Photosynthesis in the Grasses • Modeling the Fitness Consequences of a Cyanophage-Encoded Photosynthesis Gene • An Evaluation of the Effects of Exogenous Ethephon, an Ethylene Releasing Compound, on Photosynthesis of Mustard (Brassica juncea) Cultivars that Differ in Photosynthetic Capacity • High-Susceptibility of Photosynthesis to Photoinhibition in the Tropical Plant Ficus microcarpa L. f. cv. Golden Leaves • The Role of Chlorophyll B in Photosynthesis: Hypothesis • Exploring Photosynthesis Evolution by Comparative Analysis of Metabolic Networks Between Chloroplasts and Photosynthetic Bacteria • Effects of Cu2+, Ni2+, Pb2+, Zn2+ and Pentachlorophenol on Photosynthesis and Motility in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in Short-Term Exposure Experiments • Comparative Genomic Analysis of C4 Photosynthetic Pathway Evolution in Grasses • The ACC ENT-VOCBAS Field Campaign on Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in a Mediterranean Ecosystem of Castelporziano (Rome):Site Characteristics, Climatic and Meteorological Conditions, and Eco-Physiology of Vegetation • Molecular Adaptation during Adaptive Radiation in the Hawaiian Endemic Genus Schiedea • Analysis of the Chloroplast Protein Kinase Stt7 during State Transitions • A Rapid, Non-Invasive Procedure for Quantitative Assessment of Drought Survival Using Chlorophyll Fluorescence • CO2 Assimilation, Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase, Carbohydrates and Photosynthetic Electron Transport Probed by the JIP-Test, of Tea Leaves in Response to Phosphorus Supply • Index

This volume includes the latest research into the diseases that affect the non-vascular plants. Chapters within this book bring to light the most recent studies of pathogen identification, disease etiology, disease cycles, economic impact, plant disease epidemiology, plant disease resistance, how plant diseases affect humans and animals, pathosystem genetics, and management of plant diseases. The information provided here will allow readers to stay current with this field's ongoing research and ever-developing knowledge base.

CONTENTS: Expanding the Paradigms of Plant Pathogen Life History and Evolution of Parasitic Fitness Beyond Agricultural Boundaries • Two Plant Viral Suppressors of Silencing Require the Ethylene-Inducible Host Transcription Factor RAV2 to Block RNA Silencing • Enhanced Disease Susceptibility 1 and Salicylic Acid Act Redundantly to Regulate Resistance Gene-Mediated Signaling • Strategies of Nitrosomonas europaea 19718 to Counter Low Dissolved Oxygen and High Nitrite Concentrations • A Novel Pathogenicity Gene Is Required in the Rice Blast Fungus to Suppress the Basal Defenses of the Host • Differential Gene Expression in Incompatible Interaction Between Wheat and Stripe Rust Fungus Revealed by Cdna-AFLP and Comparison to Compatible Interaction • Generation and Analysis of Expression Sequence Tags from Haustoria of the Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici • Living the Sweet Life:How Does a Plant Pathogenic Fungus Acquire Sugar from Plants? • more • Index

In horticulture, agriculture, and food science, plants' reproductive physiology is an important topic relating to fruits and vegetables, the main consumable parts of plants. All aspects of plant physiology, including plants' reproductive systems, are important to the production of food, fibers, medicine, cosmetics, and even fuels. This volume presents many new studies on plants' reproductive systems, including new research on sperm cells in plant reproduction; the effect of herbivory on plant reproduction; disturbances to functional diversity; plant genes, hormones, DNA; and much more.

CONTENTS: A Plant Germline-Specific Integrator of Sperm Specification and Cell Cycle Progression • Effects of Herbivory on the Reproductive Effort of 4 Prairie Perennials • Identification of Flowering Genes in Strawberry, a Perennial SD Plant • Changes in Tree Reproductive Traits Reduce Functional Diversity in a Fragmented Atlantic Forest Landscape • Genetic Subtraction Profiling Identifies Genes Essential for Arabidopsis Reproduction and Reveals Interaction Between the Female Gametophyte and the Maternal Sporophyte • Arabidopsis WRKY2 Transcription Factor Mediates Seed Germination and Postgermination Arrest of Development by Abscisic Acid • DNA Methylation Causes Predominant Maternal Controls of Plant Embryo Growth • Gibberellin Acts through Jasmonate to Control the Expression of MYB21, MYB24, and MYB57 to Promote Stamen Filament Growth in Arabidopsis • Expressions of ECE-CYC2 Clade Genes Relating to Abortion of Both Dorsal and Ventral Stamens in Opithandra (Gesneriaceae) • A Comparative Analysis of Pollinator Type and Pollen Ornamentation in the Araceae and the Arecaceae, Two Unrelated Families of the Monocots • Life History Traits in Selfing Versus Outcrossing Annuals:Exploring the 'Time-Limitation' Hypothesis for the Fitness Benefit of Self-Pollination • Functional Diversity of Plant–Pollinator Interaction Webs Enhances the Persistence of Plant Communities • How to Be an Attractive Male:Floral Dimorphism and Attractiveness to Pollinators in a Dioecious Plant • Pollen Development in Annona cherimola mill. (Annonaceae):Implications for the Evolution of Aggregated Pollen • more • Index