
Environmental Stress and Gene Regulation
K.B. Storey(Editor)
Bios Scientific Publishers Ltd
Published on 15. June 1998
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-85996-057-8 (ISBN)
Description
Environmental physiology and comparative biochemistry are shifting to a new level of focus-the gene. New developments in molecular biology have put simplified techniques for screening and analysis of gene expression into the hands of physiologists and biochemists who are using these for novel explorations of organismal responses to environmental stress. Selected topics cover both animal and plant systems to focus on recent advances in gene expression responses to environmental stresses including low and high temperature, freezing, oxygen limitation, reactive oxygen species, nutrient restriction as well as environmentally-cued programmed cell death. The book highlights the latest techniques and approaches for exploring the regulation of gene expression and illustrates, in selected systems, the interactions between genes and environmental stress that underlie adaptive responses.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85996-057-8 (9781859960578)
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Content
Stress-induced gene expression in freeze-tolerant and anoxia-tolerant vertebrates. HIF-1 and the molecular response to hypoxia in mammals. The role of reactive oxygen species in oxygen-dependent gene expression. Freeze-resistance strategies based on antifreeze proteins. Environmentally induced gene expression: poikilotherm responses to cold. Temperature-regulated muscle genes. Influence of cold on gene expression in mammals. Small heat shock proteins: in search of functions in vivo. Approaches to the analysis of cold-induced barley genes isolated through differential screening of a cDNA library. Dying according to programme: occurrence in plant developmental processes in response to environmental cues.