Contents: Preface. I. Plant nutrition: adaptive root structure: 1. Cluster roots--a special adaptive root structure/El Morabet R., H.G. Diem, A. Hemantaranjan, M. Arahou and H. Zaid. II. Germination and seedling development: 2. Germination and seedling development in maize--a genetic approach/Giuseppe Gavazzi, Silvana Dolfini, Gabriella Consonni, Anna Giulini and Roberto Pilu. III. Plant-microbe interactions and pathogen attack: 3. Plant-microbe interaction: the botrytis grey mould of grapes - biology, biochemistry, epidemiology and control management/Roger Pezet, Olivier Viret and Katia Gindro. 4. Nitric oxide signaling in plant defence responses to pathogen attack/I. Salgado, E.E. Saviani, L.V. Modolo and M.R. Braga. IV. Molecular advances in plant metabolism: 5. Inositol metabolism in plant cells -- a genomics perspective/Glenda E. Gillaspy, Mustafa E. Ercetin and Ryan N. Burnette. 6. Biosynthesis and signaling of brassinosteroids/M. Mori. 7. Pectin biosynthesis/Takeshi Ishimizu and Sumihiro Hase. 8. Peptide signaling in higher plants/Heping Yang, Hiroshi Kamada, Kenzo Nakamura and Youji Sakagami. 9. Costs of production and physiology of emission of volatile leaf isoprenoids/Ulo Niinemets. V. Abiotic stresses: cellular and molecular responses: 10. Heat shock proteins--biological role and regulation/Saroj Dua and Gurpreet Kaur. 11. Plant cellular and molecular responses to salt stress and their tolerance mechanisms/Neera Garg and Monika Singhi. 12. Plants in relation to excess of heavy metals/Moinuddin, Shahid Umar and Muhammad Iqbal. 13. Aluminium tolerance mechanisms: Beyond of Al3+ - induced organic acids secretion/Arnoldo Rocha Facanha and Anna L. Okorokova-Facanha. VI. Molecular advances in phytohormone research: 14. Advances in plant hormone receptors/P.K. Nagar and Shweta Sood. VII. Plant biomineralization: 15. Plant biomineralization/Paula V. Monje and Enrique J. Baran. VIII. Plant molecular biology and biotechnology: 16. Quantifying nucleic acids with fluorescent probes -- contribution of real-time PCR to applied to fundamental plant research/Annaick Mingam, Claire Gachon and Benedicte Charrier. 17. Biotechnology in wheat breeding/Marcelo Helguera and Viviana Echenique. 18. Biotechnology in forage crops and pasture plants/Marina L. Diaz and Viviana Echenique. IX. Techniques in plant physiology: 19. Chemoperception analysis in intact leaves with microsensor-based systems/Stefan M. Hanstein. 20. Precision agriculture/T. Yellamanda Reddy and P. Umamaheswari. X. Physiological basis of yield: 21. Physiological basis of the variations in growth of wheat grains (triticum aestivam)/I.S. Dua, Neera Garg and Ranju Singla. Index.
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