Biochemical and Cellular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants

1 High Temperature Stress.- The heat stress response as part of the plant stress network: An overview with six tables.- Developmental regulation and enhancement of heat shock gene expression.- Normal cellular protein synthesis and heat shock.- Thermal acclimation and heat stress response of synechocystis PCC6803: The possible role of thylakoid physical state, lipid saturation and molecular chaperones.- Studies of a chloroplast-localized small heat shock protein in arabidopsis.- The low molecular weight heat shock proteins of soybean seedlings.- Class I low molecular weight heat shock proteins in plants: immunological study and thermoprotection against heat denaturation of soluble proteins.- Genetic and molecular evidences of the regulation of gene expression during heat shock in plants.- Integration of acquired thermotolerance within the developmental program of seed reserve mobilization.- Cross protection of one stress by another: strategies in postharvest fruit storage.- Photosynthesis, epicuticular wax and lipid changes in cowpea cultivars grown under hyperthermic conditions.- Altered gene expression in thermoadapted cultured cells of cowpea.- 2 Drought Stress.- Cloning of a DNA fragment encoding ?-glutamyl kinase and ?-glutamyl phosphate reductase from a tomato cDNA library.- Regulation of gene expression in response to drought and osmotic shock.- Gene expression during water stress.- Molecular genetic approaches to improving heat and drought stress tolerance in crop plants.- Evolution and metabolic engineering of osmoprotectant accumulation in higher plants.- Regulation of shoot growth in dry soils by abscisic acid and by root messages.- Stress tolerance in plants: What are we looking for?.- Proteolysis and proteolytic activities in the acclimation to stress: thecase of sugar starvation in maize root tips.- Regulation of the rab17 gene in ABA-deficient and ABA-insensitive viviparous mutants of maize.- A role for sorbitol in desiccation tolerance of developing maize kernels: inference from the properties of maize sorbitol dehydrogenase.- 3 Salinity Stress.- Yeast halotolerance genes: crucial ion transport and metabolic reactions in salt tolerance.- Structure, regulation and function of the osmotin gene.- Responses to salt stress in the halophyte mesembryanthemum crystallinum.- Alterations in H+-ATPase gene expression in response to salt.- Solute regulation by calcium in salt-stressed plants.- The response of plants to salinity: a working hypothesis.- 4 Low Temperature Stress.- Caps, cors, dehydrins, and molecular chaperones: their relationship with low temperature responses in spinach.- Low temperature signal transduction, gene expression, and cold acclimation: multiple roles of low temperature.- Molecular analysis of cold-hardening in barley.- Regulation of low temperature-induced genes during cold acclimation of arabidopsis thaliana.- Genetically engineered modification of plant chilling sensitivity and characterization of cyanobacterial heat shock proteins.- Low temperature regulation of gene expression in winter Brassica napus.- Sorting genes controlling freezing stress resistance: strategy for moving desired traits by merging physiological and genetic approaches.- 5 Engineering Plants for Stress Tolerance.- Engineering plants for stress tolerance via organelle genomes.