Communication in Plants : Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life / edited by Frantisek Baluska, Stefano Mancuso, Dieter Volkmann. — Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2006.—(58.823/C734)

Contents

        Contents
    
1 The Green Plant as an Intelligent Organism 1
2 Neurobiological View of Plants and Their Body Plan 19
3 Charles Darwin and the Plant Root Apex: Closing a Gap in Living Systems Theory as Applied to Plants 37
4 How Can Plants Choose the Most Promising Organs? 53
5 The Role of Root Apices in Shoot Growth Regulation: Support for Neurobiology at the Whole Plant Level? 65
6 Signals and Targets Triggered by Self-Incompatibility in Plants: Recognition of "Self" Can Be Deadly 75
7 Signal Perception and Transduction in Plant Innate Immunity 95
8 Nitric Oxide Involvement in Incompatible Plant-Pathogen Interactions 111
9 From Cell Division to Organ Shape: Nitric Oxide Is Involved in Auxin-Mediated Root Development 123
10 Neurotransmitters， Neuroregulators and Neurotoxins in Plants 137
11 Amino Acid Transport in Plants and Transport of Neurotransmitters in Animals: a Common Mechanism? 153
12 GABA and GHB Neurotransmitters in Plants and Animals 171
13 The Arabidopsis thaliana Glutamate-like Receptor Family (AtGLR) 187
14 Similarities Between Endocannabinoid Signaling in Animal Systems and N-Acylethanolamine Metabolism in Plants 205
15 Regulation of Plant Growth and Development by Extracellular Nucleotides 221
16 Physiological Roles of Nonselective Cation Channels in the Plasma Membrane of Higher Plants 235
17 Touch-Responsive Behaviors and Gene Expression in Plants 249
18 Oscillations in Plants 261
19 Electrical Signals in Long-Distance Communication in Plants 277
20 Slow Wave Potentials - a Propagating Electrical Signal Unique to Higher Plants 291
21 Electrical Signals， the Cytoskeleton， and Gene Expression: a Hypothesis on the Coherence of the Cellular Responses to Environmental Insult 309
22 Characteristics and Functions of Phloem-Transmitted Electrical Signals in Higher Plants 321
23 Long-Distance Signal Transmission in Trees 333
24 Electrophysiology and Phototropism 351
25 Hydro-Electrochemical Integration of the Higher Plant-Basis for Electrogenic Flower Induction 369
26 Signals and Signalling Pathways in Plant Wound Responses 391
27 Root Exudation and Rhizosphere Biology: Multiple Functions of a Plant Secondary Metabolite 403
28 Communication Between Undamaged Plants by Volatiles: the Role of Allelobiosis 421
Subject Index 435