© 2011 • 253 pp., illus. (36 color, 13 b/w), index
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Auxin is an important plant hormone that controls numerous aspects of development and physiology, including responses to light, tissue patterning, and organogenesis. It forms concentration gradients across various tissues throughout the plant and exerts its effects by binding to auxin binding proteins and regulating transcription of distinct sets of target genes.

Written and edited by experts in the field, this volume describes the numerous processes auxin controls. These include growth of the shoot apical meristem, leaf and vein patterning, and flower, fruit, and root development. Other chapters examine how auxin is synthesized by plants, the nature of auxin receptors, the Aux/IAA family of transcriptional repressors that auxin regulates, and the variety of auxin transport mechanisms that exist in plants.

The book also examines the extraordinary complexity of auxin responses and discusses new computational models for mechanisms that allow this hormone to generate such a wide variety of outputs. It is thus of interest to systems biologists, biochemists, and developmental biologists, as well as all plant biologists interested in the regulation of plant behavior and morphogenesis.

Preface

 

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Odyssey of Auxin

Steffen Abel and Athanasios Theologis

 

AUXIN SYNTHESIS AND TRANSPORT

Approaching Cellular and Molecular Resolution of Auxin Biosynthesis and Metabolism

Jennifer Normanly

Auxin Transporters—Why So Many?

Eva Zažímalová, Angus S. Murphy, Haibing Yang, Klára Hoyerová, and Petr Hošek

 

AUXIN PERCEPTION AND CELLULAR RESPONSES

Auxin Perception—Structural Insights

Luz Irina Calderon-Villalobos, Xu Tan, Ning Zheng, and Mark Estelle

Cellular Responses to Auxin: Division versus Expansion

Catherine Perrot-Rechenmann

 

AUXIN IN DEVELOPMENT

Modeling Auxin-regulated Development

Pawel Krupinski and Henrik Jönsson

Auxin Control of Embryo Patterning

Barbara Möller and Dolf Weijers

Auxin at the Shoot Apical Meristem

Teva Vernoux, Fabrice Besnard, and Jan Traas

Auxin Control of Root Development

Paul Overvoorde, Hidehiro Fukaki, and Tom Beeckman

Control of Leaf and Vein Development by Auxin

Enrico Scarpella, Michalis Barkoulas, and Miltos Tsiantis

Distinct and Dynamic Auxin Activities During Reproductive Development

Eva Sundberg and Lars Østergaard

Auxin and Monocot Development

Paula McSteen

 

SIGNAL INTEGRATION

Do Trees Grow on Money? Auxin as the Currency of the Cellular Economy

Jodi L. Stewart and Jennifer L. Nemhauser

Context, Specificity, and Self-Organization in Auxin Response

Marta Del Bianco and Stefan Kepinski

Integration of Light and Auxin Signaling

Karen J. Halliday, Jaime F. Martínez-García, and Eve-Marie Josse

Auxin and Plant-Microbe Interactions

Stijn Spaepen and Jos Vanderleyden

 

Index