Research Catalog

Title

Plant adaptation to environmental stress / edited by Leslie Fowden, Terry Mansfield, and John Stoddart.

Publication

London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Fowden, Leslie, 1925-2008.
• Mansfield, T. A. (Terence Arthur), 1937-
• Stoddart, John (John L.)
• Rank Prize Funds.

Description

346 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Human activity is producing changes to our environment on an unprecedented global scale. Learning and understanding how plants respond to these changes will be crucial to our ability to feed human populations in the future.
• This book gives a broad coverage of the ways in which plants respond and adjust to environmental variables, and identifies unifying concepts spanning different levels of plant organization from the subcellular to the whole natural plant community. The 18 chapters were given as invited contributions at a meeting sponsored by the Rank Prize Funds in October 1992.
• The book will be of great interest and use to all plant scientists and upper level students concerned with the impact of the environment on plants.

Subject

• Plants > Effect of stress on
• Plants > Adaptation
• Plant ecology

Note

• "The chapters of this book represent the Proceedings of an International Symposium ... sponsored by the Rank Prize Funds"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Community and Ecosystem Level. 1. Climatic constraints on crop production / J. L. Monteith and J. Elston. 2. Population dynamics, evolution and environment: adaptation to environmental stress / W. H. O. Ernst. 3. Stress, competition, resource dynamics and vegetation processes / J. P. Grime. 4. What can models tell us? / M. Rees and J. H. Lawton. 5. Understanding photosynthetic adaptation to changing climate / D. W. Lawlor and A. J. Keys -- Whole Plant Responses. 6. Temperature stress / C. J. Pollock, C. F. Eagles, C. J. Howarth, P. H. D. Schunmann and J. L. Stoddart. 7. Plants under salt and water stress / J. Shalhevet. 8. Physiological basis of stress imposed by ozone pollution / T. A. Mansfield and M. Pearson. 9. Plant adaptation to environmental stress: metal pollutant tolerance / P. J. Peterson. 10. Structural and functional responses to fire and nutrient stress: case studies from the sandplains of South-West Australia / J. S. Pate -- Metabolic and Genetic Responses.
• 11. Chemical signalling and the adaptation of plants to conditions where water availability is restricted / W. J. Davies, F. Tardieu and C. L. Trejo. 12. Perception and transduction of stress by plant cells / R. A. Leigh. 13. Molecular and genetic analysis of the heat-shock response in transgenic plants / F. Schoffl, E. Kloske, A. Hubel, K. Severin and A. Wagner. 14. Long-term adaptation and survival / M. A. Hughes, M. A. Dunn, L. Zhang, R. S. Pearce, N. J. Goddard and A. J. White. 15. Significance of antioxidants in plant adaptation to environmental stress / A. Polle and H. Rennenberg. 16. Effects of stress on the genome / K. Bachmann -- Interactive Stresses. 17. Stress responses in plants infected by pathogenic and mutualistic fungi / P. G. Ayres and H. M. West. 18. Plant strategies and environmental stress: a dialectic approach / L. Oksanen.

ISBN

0412490005 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

93032570

OCLC

• 28800899
• ocm28800899

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries