1st Edition

Plant Biochemical Regulators

By Gausman Copyright 1991

    A textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in biotechnology in a wide range of fields concerned with plants. Describes the use of both endogenous and introduced biochemical regulators to manipulate plant responses. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

    Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction to Effects of Plant Biochemical Regulators /Harold W. Gausman, Jerry E. Quisenberry, and Henry Yokoyama -- Part I Bioregulation of Carotenoid Genesis and Isoprenoid Pathways -- 2 Regulation of Biosynthesis of Carotenoids /Henry Yokoyama and James H. Keithly -- 3 Regulation of Rubber Transferase Activity by 2- (3,4-Dichlorophenoxy)triethylamine in Plants of Parthenium argentatum /S. Madhavan and C. R. Benedict -- Part II Regulation of Cellular Protection Systems, Source-Sink Interactions, and Function of Lipid Metabolites -- 4 Environmental Regulation of Cellular Protection Systems /John J. Burke and James R. Mahan -- 5 Biochemical Regulation of Source-Sink Relationships /Jaleh Daie -- 6 Lipid Metabolites: Regulators of Plant Metabolism? /David F. Hildebrand and W. Scott Grayburn -- Part III Use of Natural Products, Tissue Culture, and Monoclonal Antibodies in Bioregulation -- 7. Use of Plant Bioregulators in Tissue Culture /Norma L. Trolinder -- 8. Effects of Natural Products from Microorganisms on Higher Plants /Horace G. Cutler -- 9. Monoclonal Antibodies in the Study of Plant Bioregulation /Shyi Yi Huang -- Part IV Growth Retardants -- 10. Biochemical Effects of Plant Growth Retardants /Wilhelm Rademacher -- Part V Practical Aspects, New Theories, and Development of Plant Biochemical Regulation -- 11. Effects of Biochemical Regulators on Stress-Induced Adaptation with Special Regard to Salt Stress /Christian Stark -- 12. Regulation of Crop Growth and Yield by Tertiary Amine Bioregulators /James H. Keithly, Henry Yokoyama, and Harold W. Gausman -- 13. Bioregulators: Present and Future Fields of Application /Peter Eberhard Schott and Helmut Walter -- Part VI Nondestructive Plant Analyses -- 14. Nondestructive Composition Analysis of Plant Materials /Gerald S. Birth -- Index.

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