Advances in Plant Physiology, Volume--2

Contents: Preface. I. Plant Metabolism: 1. The biogenesis of Indole Alkaloids/M. Sottomayor, F. Dicosmo and A. Ros Barcelo. II. Photosynthesis and Crop Productivity: 2. Photosynthesis in relation to crop productivity in rice/V.P. Singh and S.R. Voleti. III. Environmental Physiology/Stress Physiology: 3. Heat shock proteins in plants/K.K. Bora, P.K. Roy and S.P. Bohra. 4. Adaptation to stressful environments--role of phytohormones homeostasis/Sabra Abbas, Parves H. Zaidi and Atar Singh. 5. Plant responses and adaptation to water deficits/K.V. Janardhan and R. Bhojaraja. 6. Plant response to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide/Madhoolika Agrawal and S.S. Deepak. 7. Variability and mechanism of salinity tolerance in rice/J.S. Bohra. IV. Mineral Nutrition: 8. Mineral nutrition of groundnut/A.L. Singh. 9. Sulphur nutrition of oilseed crops/A.L. Singh. V. Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants: 10. Iron nutrition I - soil and plant procedures to control iron deficiency/A. Hemantaranjan and A. Wallace. VI. Recent Advances in Micronutrient Research: 11. Influence of succinate on zinc toxicity in zea mays/S. Doncheva, Z. Stoynova, L. Gradi-Narsci and G. Ignatov. VII. Physiology of Host-Parasite Relationship: 12. Role of plant growth regulators in disease resistance/K.K. Bora, R. Ganesh and S.P. Bohra. VIII. Post-Harvest Physiology: 13. Post-harvest physiology of fruit and vegetable crops/S.P. Singh and Rajkumar. IX. Methodological Advances: 14. Progress in the biological significance and analytical methodology of selenium/A.J. Aller. 15. Methodological advances in the determination of gold/A.J. Aller. Subject Index.