Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 36, The Moss Physcomitrella patens

Name: Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 36, The Moss Physcomitrella patens
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Celia Knight Pierre-François Perroud David Cove(Herausgeber*in)

Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)

Erschienen am 20. August 2009

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Intro
ANNUAL PLANT REVIEWS VOLUME 36
CONTENTS
Contributors
Preface
Glossary
1 Putting Physcomitrella patens on the Tree of Life: The Evolution and Ecology of Mosses
1.1 Introduction to Physcomitrella
1.2 The position of P. patens on the Tree of Life
1.3 Relationships within the mosses
1.4 Evolution and ecology of the mosses
1.5 General implications for evolutionary processes in mosses
2 The Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in Bryophyte Model Systems
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Genetic variation among bryophyte populations
2.3 Mapping genes underlying natural variants
2.4 Assigning genes to phenotypes
3 Comparative Genomics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 A short history of P. patens genomics
3.3 Features of the P. patens nuclear genome
3.4 Comparisons with seed plants and algae
3.5 Computational resources for P. patens
3.6 Conclusions and outlook
4 Gene targeting
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Gene targeting in eukaryotes
4.3 Gene targeting in P. patens: practical aspects
4.4 Targeted gene replacement versus targeted insertion
4.5 Mechanisms of gene targeting
4.6 Unanswered questions and future prospects
5 The Small RNAs of Physcomitrella patens: Expression, Function and Evolution
5.1 Introduction to small RNAs
5.2 Classes of small silencing RNAs
5.3 Expression of P. patens small RNAs
5.4 Biogenesis of P. patens small RNAs: Dicers, Slicers and other utensils
5.5 Targets of P. patens small RNAs
5.6 Evolution of plant miRNAs
5.7 Conclusions
6 Tip Growth in the Moss Physcomitrella patens
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Morphology and structure of a tip cell
6.3 Environmental signals affecting polar cell elongation
6.4 Cellular structural components involved in polar cell elongation
7 Gametangia Development in the Moss Physcomitrella patens
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Development of the gametangia
7.3 Development of the gametangia after fertilization is accompanied by growth of the sporophyte
7.4 Gene-trap lines with GUS expression in the gametangia
7.5 Future prospects
8 Chloroplasts
8.1 Chloroplasts of Physcomitrella patens
8.2 Plastid DNA
8.3 Transcription of plastid genes by two plastid RNA polymerases PEP and NEP
8.4 Rhythmic expression of the plastid Psbd gene
8.5 Post-transcriptional regulation in plastids
8.6 Plastid transformation
8.7 Chloroplast import
8.8 Plastid division
8.9 Chloroplast movement
9 Carbon and Energy Metabolism
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Carbon and energy allocation
9.3 Sucrose metabolism and transport
9.4 Hexose metabolism and transport
9.5 Energy homeostasis and Snf1-related kinases
9.6 Conclusions
9.7 Technical note on database searches and tree construction
10 Hormonal Regulation of Development by Auxin and Cytokinin in Moss
10.1 Major plant hormone routes are established in bryophytes
10.2 Auxin
10.3 Cytokinin
10.4 Auxin and cytokinin interaction
10.5 Other growth regulating substances
11 The Role of Abscisic Acid in Stress Tolerance
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Tolerance of P. patens to abiotic stresses and the effects of ABA
11.3 Physiological and morphological changes during the establishment of tolerance
11.4 Expression of stress-related genes
11.5 Global responses to stress at the transcription level
11.6 The ABA-signalling pathway
11.7 Conclusions
12 Pathogenesis in Mosses
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Recent advances in molecular plant pathology
12.3 Experimental advantages of P. patens
12.4 Developing a P. patens pathosystem
12.5 Responses of P. patens to infection
12.6 Selecting P. patens genes for functional studies of disease
12.7 Future directions and opportunities
Index
Color plates (between pages 174 and 175)

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