1.11. Hydrotropism: Analysis of the Root Response to a Moisture Gradient Regina Antoni, Daniela Dietrich, Malcolm J. Bennett, and Pedro L. Rodriguez
2. Assessing Gravitropic Responses in Arabidopsis Richard Barker, Benjamin Cox, Logan Silber, Arah Sangari, Amir Assadi, and Patrick Masson
3. Physiological Analysis of Phototropic Responses in Arabidopsis Mathias Zeidler
4. Automatic Chloroplast Movement Analysis Henrik Johansson and Mathias Zeidler
5. Micro
scopic and Biochemical Visualization of Auxins in Plant Tissues Joshua J. Blakeslee and Angus S. Murphy
6. Immunolocalization of PIN and ABCB Transporters in Plants Nicola Carraro and Wendy A. Peer
Part II Photoperiodism and Circasian Rhythms
7.Analysis of Circadian Leaf Movements Niels A. Müller and José M. Jimémez-Gómez
8. Sample Preparation of Arabidopsis Thaliana Shoot Apices for Expression Studies of Photoperiod-Induced Genes Fernando Andrés, Stefano Torti, Coral Vincent, and George Coupland
9. A Luciferase-Based Assay to Test Whether Gene Expression Responses to Environmental Inputs are
Temporally Restricted by the Circadian Clock Amaury de Montaigu, Markus C. Berns, and Geroge Coupland
10. Identification of Arabidopsis Transcriptional Regulators by Yeast One-Hyrbid Screens Using a Transcription Factor ORFeome Ghislain Breton, Steve A. Kay, and José L. Pruneda-Paz
11. Monitoring Alternative Splicing Changes in Arabidopsis Circadian Clock Genes Craig G. Simpson, John Fuller, Cristiane P. G. Calixto, Jim McNicol, Clare Booth, John W. S. Brown, and Dorothee Staiger
12. Assessing the Impact of Photosynthetic Sugars in the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock Michael J. Haydon and Alex A. R. Webb
13. Assessing Protein Stability Under Different Light and Circadian Conditions Takatoshi Kiba and Rossana Henriques
Part IIIAbiotic Stress Responses
14. Screening for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice: Salt, Cold, and Drought Diego M. Almeida, M. Cecília Almadanim, Tiago Louren
ço, Isabel A. Abreu, Nelson J. M. Saibo, and M. Margarida Oliveira
15. Basic Techniques to Assess Seed Germination Responses to Abiotic Stress in Arabidopsis Thaliana Urszula Piskurewicz and Luis Lopez-Molina
16. Assessing Tolerance to Heavy-Metal Stress in Arabidopsis Thaliana Seedings Estelle Remy and Paula Duque
17. Assessing Drought Responses Using Thermals Infrared Imaging Ankush Prashar and Hamlyn G. Jones
18. Generating Targeted Gene Knockout Lines in Physcomotrella Patens to Study Evolution of Stress- Responsive Mechanisms Monika Maronova and Maria Kalyna
19. Screening Stress Tolerance Traits in Arabidopsis Cell Cultures Imma P. Salamó, Bogáta Boros, and L
ászló Szabados
20. Using Arabidopsis Protoplasts to Study Cellular responses to Environmental Stress Ana Confraria and Elena Baena-González
21. Construction of Artificial miRNAs to Prevent Drought Stress in Solanum Tuberosum Anna Wyrzykowska, Marcin Pieczyński, and Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska
Part IV Plant-Pathogen Interactions
22. Virus-Induced Gene Silencing for Gene Function Studies in Barley Maria Barciszewska-Pacak, Artur Jarmolowski, and Andrzej Pacak
23. Methods for Long-Term Stable Storage of Colletotrichum Species Kei Hiruma and Yusuke Saijo
24. Plant Inoculation with the Fungal Leaf Pathogen Colletotrichum Higginsianum Kei Hiruma and Yusuke Saijo
25. Tracing Plant Defense Responses in Roots Upon MAMP/DAMP Treatment Kei Hiruma and Yusuke Saijo
26. Analysis of the Immunity=Related Oxidative Bursts by a Luminol-Based Assay Marco Trujillo
27. Quantitative Analysis of Microbe-Associated-Molecular-Pattern (MAMP)-Induced Ca2+ Transients in Plants Fabian Trempel, Stefanie Ranf, Dierk Scheel, and Justin Lee
28. Rapid Assessment of DNA Methylation Changes in Response to Salicylic Acid by Chop-qPCR Stephanie Rausch and Sascha Laubinger
29. Determining Nucleosome Position at Individual Loci after Biotic Stress Using MNase-qPCR Margaux Kaster and Sascha Laubinger
30. Phosphoprotein Enrichment Combined with Phosphopeptide Enrichment to Identify Putative Phosphoproteins During Defense Response in Arabidopsis Thaliana Ines Lassowskat, Wolfgang Hoehenwarter, Justin Lee, and Dierk Scheel
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This volume describes different up-to-date methodological approaches, ranging from physiological assays to imaging and molecular techniques, to study a wide variety of plant responses to environmental cues. Environmental Responses in Plants: Methods and Protocols is divided into four sections: Tropisms, Photoperiodism and Circadian Rhythms, Abiotic Stress Responses, and Plant-Pathogen Interactions. The chapters in these sections include detailed protocols to investigate some of the many key biological processes underlying plant environmental responses, mostly in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana, but also in Physcomitrella patens and in different crop species such as rice, potato, barley, or tomato. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and practical, Environmental Responses in Plants: Methods and Protocols, is a great resource for plant physiologists, biochemists, and cell and molecular scientists interested in this exciting and fast-growing research topic.