The ability of plants to exchange RNA molecules and transcription factors between cells and tissues is a relatively recent discovery. However, all areas ofresearch such as plant development, metabolism, and plant pathogen interactions now realize the importance of this phenomenon. In this book, experts from the field of intercellular transport deal with various aspects on intercellulartransport of viruses and plant endogenous macromolecules such as transcription factors, small silencing-induced and micro RNAs, and other RNAs and their function as signals. The aim of the book is to provide the basic information on the cell-to-cell transport mechanism and to give an overview of the current knowledge of this relatively new field of research. To quote the words of W.J. Lucas “ pioneering discoveries in this field of cell-to-cell and long-distance signaling should certainly entice talented young scholars to join this frontier area of plant biology”. He is certainly right as we got only a first glimpseon the cellular factors regulating intercellular transport and the functionaldiversity of the ever-increasing number of proteins and RNA molecules found to move between cells. The recent progress on the isolation and characterization of a number of plasmodesmal proteins will lead to rapid advances in this field of study, and this book,as well as, the opportunity for pioneering discoveries in the field of cell-to-cell and long-distance signaling should certainly entice talented young scholars to join this frontier area of plant biology INDICE: Viral studies point the way: Mechanisms of intercellular transport. Embryogenesis as a model system to dissect the genetic and developmental regulation of cell-to-cell transport via plasmodesmata. Function and Identification of Mobile Transcription Factors. Cell-to-cell Movement of Homeodomain Transcription Factors: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Mechanism of small RNA Movement. Long-distance Signaling by small RNAs. Signaling and Phloem-Mobile Transcripts.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-1531-3
- Editorial: Springer New York
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 236
- Fecha Publicación: 15/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés