{"product_id":"9780080561769","title":"Advances in Botanical Research","description":"Harmonious, integrated functioning of the whole plant system requires that its various cells, tissues and organs should be able to communicate with each other, transferring a range of information on environmental conditions, physiological and microbial stresses etc. In this volume of \u003cb\u003eAdvances in Botanical Research incorporating Advances in Plant Pathology\u003c\/b\u003e three articles are concerned with different aspects of plant signalling.\u003cbr\u003eMcDonald and Davis consider how shoot systems respond to drying and N-deficient soil, in terms of their stomatal behaviour and growth, via the transmission of root-derived chemical signals. Malone considers the major hypotheses that have been proposed with particular attention being given to hydraulic pressure signals and the hydraulic dispersal of chemical signals. At a different, intracellular level of communication, a wide variety of second messengers couple extracellular stimuli to a characteristic physiological response. Webb \u003ci\u003eet al\u003c\/i\u003e. Consider progress made in establishing similar roles for calcium in plant signalling in the context of the mammalian paradigms.\u003cbr\u003eThe effects of UV-B radiation on plants have been extensively investigated in recent years. Jordan considers progress in understanding the chain of events from perception of UV-B to signal transduction and consequent changes in gene expression and regulation.\u003cbr\u003eSmith and Smith assess the various hypotheses erected over the years to explain structure and function of the host-parasite interface formed by vesticular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizas, an important and widespread mutualistic symbioses of a wide range of higher and some lower plants.","brand":"Elsevier Science","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119333720304,"sku":"9780080561769","price":208.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780080561769_p0.jpg?v=1763638227","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780080561769","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}