Current Advances in Fern Research

ISBN-13: 9783030091514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 544 str.

Helena Fernandez

Spis treści

I. Biology and Biotechnology in Ferns

1. Alexandru M.F Tomescu (Humboldt State University, USA).

Title: Seed-free plant vegetative morphology – a developmental perspective.

2. Jan de Vries (Dalhousie University, Canada).

Title: Azolla – a model system for symbiotic nitrogen fixation and evolutionary developmental biology.

3. Helena Fernández, Alejandro Rivera y Mª Jesús Cañal. (Oviedo University, Spain).

Title: The fern gametophyte as a model to study apomixis.

4. Ajij Pratap Singh (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India).

Title: Biotechnology in clone gametophytes: future perspectives of homosporous ferns. 

5. Tomiczak, K; Domrzalka, L.; Grzyb, M; Jan Rybczynski. (Polish Academy of Sciences, Botanical Garden, Poland).

Title: In vitro morphogenic events in ferns: from spores and protoplasts to plant.

6. Anna Mikuła et al. (Botanical Garden, Poland).

Title: Experimental and practical applications of fern somatic embryogenesis.

II. Evolution, Conservation and Biodiversity of ferns

7. Emily Sessa. (University of Florida, USA)

Title: Fern Evolution and Classification.

8. Kelly K.S. Matsunaga (University of Michigan, USA).

Title: Exploring the role of auxin in the evolution of tracheophyte body plans.

9. Daniel Ballesteros and Valerie Pence (Royal Botanic Gardens, UK)

Title: Fern conservation: the experience of 25 years of spore, gametophyte and sporophyte ex situ storage, in vitro culture, and cryopreservation"

10. Carrapico, F. (University of Lisboa, Portugal)

Title: Symbiogenesis and the evolution of biological complexity. Azolla as a case study.

III. Ferns as genetic and metabolic resources

11. Chi-Lien Chen

(University of Iowa, USA).

Title: Gametophyte and sporophyte transformation.

12. Ashley Cannon and Stanley Roux (University of Texas, USA).

Title: Generation of transgenic Ceratopteris richardii spores to analyze Ca²⁺ dynamics during gravity-directed polarization.

13. Janos Vetter (Szent Istvan University, Hungary).

Title: Secondary metabolites of ferns.

14. Liliana Cristina Soare and Nikoleta Anca Sutan (University of Pitesti, Romania).

Title: Current trends in ferns/pteridophytes extracts: from plant to nanoparticles.

IV. Ferns and Environment

15. Yanshan Chen, Lena Ma and Bala Rathinasabapathi (Nanjing University, China, and University of Florida, USA).

Title: Molecular biology of arsenic hyperaccumulator ferns: Novel genes to understand extraordinary arsenic tolerance, uptake and metabolism and their implications for cro

p improvement strategies

16. Pei-Hsuan Lee, Yao-Moan Huang, and Wen-Liang Chiou. (Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taiwan).

Title: Fern phenology

17. Jill Farrant (University of Cape Town, South Africa).

Title: Moria caffrorum as model to study desiccation tolerance.

18. Marina López-Pozo, Beatriz Fernández-Marín, Jose Ignacio García-Plazaola and Daniel Ballesteros. (University of Pais Vasco, Spain)

Title: Desiccation tolerance in ferns: from the unicellular spore to the multi-tissular sporophyte.

19. David Rodríguez de la Cruz (University of Salamanca, Spain).

Title: New insights on atmospheric fern spore dynamics.

20. José Maria Gabriel y Galán (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain).

Title: Ecological role of some hormones on spore germination of temperate forest ferns.

21.  José María Gabriel y Galán (Complutense University of Ma

drid, Spain).

Title: Ecomorphology of stomata in temperate ferns under contrasting environments.

22 Myriam Catalá, Marta Esteban, Eugenia López López, Jacinto Elías Sedeño-Díaz, Joseph A. Rodriguez Romero, Luis G. Quintanilla (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

Title: Recent advances in the use of mitochondrial activity of ferns spores in American and European ferns models for the assessment of acute toxicity.

23.  Myriam Catalá, Helena García-Cortés, José L. Rodríguez-Gil (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

Title: Update on the assessment of chronic phytotoxicity using fern spore biomarkers.

24. Bhupinder Dhir (University of Delhi, India)

Title: The role of ferns in environmental cleanup.

O autorze

Helena Fernández

Professor of Plant Physiology at the Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, University of Oviedo, Spain. She has an experience of almost three decades working with ferns, and dealing with basic and applied topics such as morphogenesis, reproduction by sexual or asexual means, and micropropagation. Presently, her interest is focussed on deciphering the molecular mechanisms involved on apogamy under trancriptomic and proteomic approaches. 

Blurb

Ferns, collectively, represent an ancient species of vascular plant which has a direct connection to the beginning of life on Earth. Today they are valued for their ornamental appeal, environmental benefit or as sources of health benefiting metabolites. Current pteridology, the study of fern, encompasses a wide range of research activities including, but not limited to, plant physiology, stress tolerance, genetics and genomics. 

The goal of this book is to compile the most relevant research done with ferns during the last decade. It is organized into four parts: I, Biology and Biotechnology; II, Evolution and Conservation; III, Metabolism and Genetic Resources, and IV, Environment. Each section reveals the utilization of ferns as a tool to explore challenges unique to plant development and adaptation.

This project represents our collective effort to raise the awareness of ferns as a model system to study higher plant functions. Among the distinctive features of our proposed book are: (i) a wide range of topics with contributing researchers from all around the world, and (ii) recent advances of theoretic and applied knowledge with implications to crop species of economic value.