4th Edition

Plant Toxicology

Edited By Bertold Hock, Erich F. Elstner Copyright 2004

    In order to keep track of all the compounds and pathogens affecting plant metabolism and development, you would need to spend all your waking hours combing periodicals and the Internet in dozens of languages, as new toxins via pollutants and migratory or mutant pathogens are being discovered every day.

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    Preface iii Contributors vii Characteristics of Plant Life: Hazards from Pollutants Bertold Hock and Nicola M. Wolf Plant Stress: Avoidance, Adaptation, Defense Harald Schempp, Susanne Hippeli, and Erich F. Elstner Uptake and Transport of Xenobiotics Markus Riederer Air Pollution: Trace Gases as Inducers of Plant Damage Harald Schempp, Susanne Hippeli, Erich F. Elstner, and Christian Langebartels Limitation of Salt Stress to Plant Growth Yuncai Hu and Urs Schmidhalter Mineral Element Toxicities: Aluminum and Manganese Walter J. Horst, Angelika Staß, and Marion M. Fecht-Christoffers Herbicides Carl Fedtke and Stephen O. Duke Molecular Basis of Toxic Effects: Inhibition of Cellular Pathways and Structural Components K. Kramer and Bertold Hock Metabolism and Elimination of Toxicants K. K. Hatzios Host-Pathogen Relations: Diseases Caused by Viruses, Subviral Organisms, and Phytoplasmas Bala´zs Barna and Lo´ra´nt Kira´ly Interactions Between Host Plants and Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens Ingrid Heiser, Jo¨rg Durner, and Christian Langebartels Allelopathy Astrid Lux-Endrich and Bertold Hock Index

    Biography

    Hock, Bertold; Elstner, Erich F.