Environmental Stress in Plants

One: Drought Stress.- Water Use Efficiency in Water and Salt Stressed Lycopersicon pennellii and Lycopersicon esculentum Plants.- Water Stress and Stem Conductivity.- Metabolic Consequences of Seed Maturation Drying.- Abscisic Acid as a Factor in Modifying Drought Resistance.- Breeding Methods for Drought Resistance.- Amino Acid Metabolism in Relation to Osmotic Adjustment in Plant Cells.- Betaine Synthesis as a Component of Osmoregulation.- Biochemical and Genetic Characterization of Betaine Aldehyde Dehydrogenase.- Osmotin: A Protein Associated with Osmotic Stress Adaptation in Plant Cells.- Salmonella typhimurium Mutants that are Not Stimulated by Glycinebetaine in Media of Elevated Osmolarity.- Two: Salinity Stress.- Effects of Salinity on Plant Growth and Crop Yields.- The Possible Role of Various Membrane Transport Mechanisms in Adaptation to Salinity.- The Role of Calcium in the Regulation of Membrane and Cellular Growth Processes under Salt Stress.- Mechanisms of Adaptation to Salinity in Cultured Glycophyte Cells.- Changes in Gene Expression Elicited by Salt Stress in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum.- Reduced Growth Rate and Changes in Cell Wall Proteins of Plant Cells Adapted to NaCl.- Three: Anaerobic Stress.- Aeration in Roots.- Adenylate Energy Charge and Anaerobic Proteins.- Anaerobic Induction of Lactate Dehydrogenase.- Characterization of Nuclear Factors that Regulate Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Expression.- Identifying the Anaerobic Proteins of Maize.- The Response to Anaerobic Stress: Transcriptional Regulation of Genes for Anaerobically Induced Proteins.- Four: Low Temperature Stress.- Molecular Changes in Membrane Lipids During Cold Stress.- Plasma Membrane ATPase as a Key Site of Alteration by a Freeze-thaw Stress: Role in Recovery and Progressive Injury.- Membrane Assembly during Acclimation to Low Temperature: Lipid-protein Interaction.- Perturbation of Membrane Calcium as a Molecular Mechanism of Freezing Injury.- Alterations of Gene Expression during the Induction of Freezing Tolerance in a Brassica napus Cell Suspension Culture.- Osmotic Stress Causes Mechanical Freeze-Thaw Damage to Thylakoids In Vitro and In Vivo.- Five: Heat Stress.- Genetic Diversity of Heat Shock Protein Synthesis in Cereal Plants.- The Heat Shock Response in Plants: Short-Term Heat Treatment Regimes and Thermotolerance.- Developmental Expression of Heat Shock Proteins in Higher Plants.- Adaptation of Thermotolerance in Cowpea Suspension Cultures.