Recently added articles from Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences:
Erratum
Sep 01, 2007; ... Erratum to "Membrane Dynamics in the Early Secretory Pathway" in Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 26(4): 199-225: The legend for Figure 6 incorrectly states that the micrographs originally published in daSilva et al., 2004, were provided by F. Brandizzi. While the micrographs were from ...
Impact of Core Histone Modifications on Transcriptional Regulation and Plant Growth
Sep 01, 2007; ... In eukaryotic organisms a wide range of regulatory mechanisms are required to complete the developmental program. Recently, the information contained in the histone code has been recognized to offer an additional mode of regulation of many processes in development. The histone code consists of ...
Promotion of Plant Growth by Bacterial ACC Deaminase
Sep 01, 2007; ... To date, there has been only limited commercial use of plant growth-promoting bacteria in agriculture, horticulture, and silviculture. However, with recent progress toward understanding the mechanisms that these organisms utilize to facilitate plant growth, the use of plant growth-promoting ...
Response of Forest Trees to Increased Atmospheric CO2
Sep 01, 2007; ... The CO2 fertilization hypothesis stipulates that rising atmospheric CO2 has a positive effect on tree growth due to increasing availability of carbon. The objective of this paper is to compare the recent literature related to both field CO2-enriched experiments with trees and empirical ...
Genetic Modification in Floriculture
Jul 01, 2007; ... An important driving force for the floriculture industry is the development of novel plants and flowers. New varieties provide marketing opportunities for retailers and judicious selection can increase productivity for growers, as well as improving the quality of the final product in the ...
Membrane Dynamics in the Early Secretory Pathway
Jul 01, 2007; ... All eukaryotes possess a secretory pathway, and the major molecular players involved in secretion are well conserved. However, the morphological manifestation of this pathway at the level of the participant organelles shows great divergences between yeasts, mammals and plants. The unique ...
The Photosynthetic Role of Ears in C^sub 3^ Cereals: Metabolism, Water Use Efficiency and Contribution to Grain Yield
Jan 01, 2007; ... This review concerns ear photosynthesis and its contribution to grain filling in C3 cereals. Ear photosynthesis is quantitatively important to grain filling, particularly in dry areas where source (i.e., assimilate) limitations can occur. Compared to the flag leaf, ear photosynthesis exhibits ...
The Mitochondrion: An Integration Point of Cellular Metabolism and Signalling
Jan 01, 2007; ... In addition to efficient synthesis of ATP by oxidative phosphorylation, acquisition of the mitochondrial endosymbiont brought a whole range of new metabolic capabilities to the ancestral eukaryotic cell lineage such that the mitochondrion retains an important role in numerous anabolic and ...
Nitrogen Management Affects Carbon Sequestration in North American Cropland Soils
Jan 01, 2007; ... Agricultural soils in North America can be a sink for rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations through the formation of soil organic matter (SOM) or humus. Humification is limited by the availability of nutrients such as nitrogen (N). Recommended management practices (RMPs) that optimize N ...
Advances in Transgenic Rice Biotechnology
Jan 01, 2007; ... Rice is the most amenable crop plant for genetic manipulation amongst monocots due to its small genome size, enriched genetic map, availability of entire genome sequence, and relative ease of transformation. Improvement in agronomic traits of rice is bound to affect a sizeable population since ...
Multiple Functions of DNA Polymerases
Jan 01, 2007; ... The primary role of DNA polymerases is to accurately and efficiently replicate the genome to ensure the maintenance of the genetic information and its faithful transmission through generations. This is not a simple task considering the size of the genome and its constant exposure to endogenous ...
Aging in Perennials
Jan 01, 2007; ... Compared with our knowledge of senescence processes in annuals and biennials, relatively little is known about age-related changes in perennials. The study of aging in plants is very complex and there is no consensus in general concepts related to this topic. Furthermore, there is also a problem ...
Integrating Remote Sensing and Ground Methods to Estimate Evapotranspiration
Jan 01, 2007; ... Evapotranspiraton (ET) is the second largest term in the terrestrial water budget after precipitation, and ET is expected to increase with global warming. ET studies are relevant to the plant sciences because over 80% of terrestrial ET is due to transpiration by plants. Remote sensing is the ...
Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Genomics of Flooding-Associated Low O2 Stress Response in Plants
Jan 01, 2006; ... Low O2 stress to a varied extent affects almost all the organisms either throughout or at specific stages in their life cycle. Plants experience this stress generally in field conditions when flooding, submergence or waterlogging of roots/plants occurs. Low O2 availability during flooding stress ...
Factors Influencing Begomovirus Evolution and Their Increasing Global Significance: Implications for Sustainable Control
Jan 01, 2006; ... Begomoviruses (Family Geminiviridae, Genus Begomovirus) have become the most destructive group of plant viruses in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The recent emergence of begomoviruses is notable, as these viruses have been co-evolving with their dicotyledonous plant hosts for ...
RNA Polyadenylation in Prokaryotes and Organelles; Different Tails Tell Different Tales
Jan 01, 2006; ... The addition of poly(A) tails to RNA is a phenomenon common to almost all organisms examined as of today. In eukaryotes, a stable poly(A) tail is added to the 3' end of most nuclear-encoded mR-NAs. This process is important for mRNA stability and translation initiation. In addition, ...
Defective Interfering DNAs of Plant Viruses
Jan 01, 2006; ... Several plant DNA viruses produce significant quantities of deleted versions of their DNA in the infected plants, which is generally correlated with a slowing down of replication process of the viral DNA. These deleted versions of the viral DNA are called Defective-Interfering (DI) DNA because ...
Terrestrial Plant-Derived Anticancer Agents and Plant Species Used in Anticancer Research
Jan 01, 2006; ... Cancer is a major cause of death and the number of new cases, as well as the number of individuals living with cancer, is expanding continuously. Due to the enormous propensity of plants that synthesize mixtures of structurally diverse bioactive compounds, the plant kingdom is potentially a very ...
Stand Structural Dynamics of North American Boreal Forests
Jan 01, 2006; ... Stand structure, the arrangement and interrelationships of live and dead trees, has been linked to forest regeneration, nutrient cycling, wildlife habitat, and climate regulation. The objective of this review was to synthesize literature on stand structural dynamics of North American boreal ...
Toward Doubled Haploid Production in the Fabaceae: Progress, Constraints, and Opportunities
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Fabaceae species have a major role to play in sustainable farming systems, but they have lagged behind other families in respect to the development of doubled haploid protocols for plant improvement. Currently, no plant improvement program uses doubled haploids on a routine basis for any ...