Plant productivity is continuously challenged by pathogen attack and abiotic stress such as
drought and salt stress. The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) is a key endogenous …

Insights into the signal transduction of the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) have unfolded
dramatically in the past few years and reveal an unanticipated complexity. Knockout lines …

Content Summary 414 I. Introduction 415 II. Ca 2+ importer and exporter in plants 415 III.
The Ca 2+ decoding toolkit in plants 415 IV. Mechanisms of Ca 2+ signal decoding 417 V. …

… Buffer solutions used were 0.2 M citrate-NaOH (e), potassium phosphate (o), and glycine
NaOH (i), in addition to the standard Tris HCl buffer (o). (C) Determination of Km values for …

A set of novel heavy-metal complexing peptides was isolated from plant cell suspension
cultures; the structure of the peptides was established as (γ-glutamic acid-cysteine)n-glycine (n …

… esculentum (E), and E. crassipes (F). For A and E, plants were treated for 3 weeks with 90
,uM Cd(NO3)2 according to Wagner (13), whereas the other tissues were exposed for 3 days …

… 5a, e) indicate that gca2 may impair signalling downstream of H 2 O 2 production and … e,
Stomatal aperture closing as a function of H 2 O 2 concentration (n = 20–120 stomata per data …

The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) acts as a developmental signal and as an integrator
of environmental cues such as drought and cold. Key players in ABA signal transduction …

Photosynthesis and biomass production of plants are controlled by the water status of the
soil. Upon soil drying, plants can reduce water consumption by minimizing transpiration …

… Petrovics, and E. Kondorosi for materials and protocols on Tn5 mutagenesis; Plant
Genetics Systems for the T-DNA vector pDE1 000; R. Drouen for gardening work; and J. …