Low-Oxygen Stress in Plants: Oxygen Sensing and Adaptive Responses to Hypoxia (Plant Cell Monographs Book 21)

During the last ten years, knowledge about the multitude of adaptive responses of plants to low oxygen stress has grown immensely. The oxygen sensor mechanism has been discovered, the knowledge about the interaction network of gene expression is expanding and metabolic adaptations have been described in detail. Furthermore, morphological changes were investigated and the regulative mechanisms triggered by plant hormones or reactive oxygen species have been revealed. This book provides a broad overview of all these aspects of low oxygen stress in plants. It integrates knowledge from different disciplines such as molecular biology, biochemistry, ecophysiology and agricultural / horticultural sciences to comprehensively describe how plants cope with low oxygen stress and discuss its ecological and agronomical consequences. This book is written for plant scientists, biochemists and scientists in agriculture and ecophysiology. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Oxygen Perception in Plants....Pages 3-17 Oxidative Stress Components Explored in Anoxic and Hypoxic Global Gene Expression Data....Pages 19-39 Low Oxygen Stress, Nonsymbiotic Hemoglobins, NO, and Programmed Cell Death....Pages 41-58 Intracellular pH Regulation of Plant Cells Under Anaerobic Conditions....Pages 59-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Transcriptional Regulation Under Low Oxygen Stress in Plants....Pages 77-93 Selective mRNA Translation Tailors Low Oxygen Energetics....Pages 95-115 Role of Ethylene and Other Plant Hormones in Orchestrating the Responses to Low Oxygen Conditions....Pages 117-132 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Insights into Algal Fermentation....Pages 135-163 Hypoxic Energy Metabolism and PPi as an Alternative Energy Currency....Pages 165-184 Oxygen Consumption Under Hypoxic Conditions....Pages 185-208 Adaptations of Nitrogen Metabolism to Oxygen Deprivation in Plants....Pages 209-221 Adaptation of Storage Metabolism to Oxygen Deprivation....Pages 223-244 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Aerenchyma Formation in Plants....Pages 247-265 Plant Internal Oxygen Transport (Diffusion and Convection) and Measuring and Modelling Oxygen Gradients....Pages 267-297 Biogenesis of Adventitious Roots and Their Involvement in the Adaptation to Oxygen Limitations....Pages 299-312 Front Matter....Pages 313-313 Underwater Photosynthesis and Internal Aeration of Submerged Terrestrial Wetland Plants....Pages 315-327 Different Survival Strategies Amongst Plants to Cope with Underwater Conditions....Pages 329-349 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 Hypoxic Storage of Fruit....Pages 353-369 Low Oxygen Stress in Horticultural Practice....Pages 371-380 Inducing Hypoxic Stress Responses by Herbicides That Inhibit Amino Acid Biosynthesis....Pages 381-394 Front Matter....Pages 395-395 Methods and Techniques to Measure Molecular Oxygen in Plants....Pages 397-417 Back Matter....Pages 419-426