Survival Strategies in Extreme Cold and Desiccation: Adaptation Mechanisms and Their Applications

ISBN-13: 9789811345913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 409 str.

Mari Iwaya-Inoue; Minoru Sakurai; Matsuo Uemura

Spis treści

Part 1: Adaptation mechanism for cold

Chapter 1: RNA regulation in plant cold stress response

Chapter 2: Gene regulatory networks mediating cold acclimation: the case of CBF regulon             

Chapter 3: Cold acclimation in plant cells: from the aspect of plasma membrane

Chapter 4: Natural variation in freezing tolerance: genetic, metabolomic, proteomic and transcriptomic analyses

Chapter 5: Mechanism of winter adaptation in woody plants

Chapter 6: Intrinsic ice nucleation activity in plants : identification, distribution and their roles in plant cold hardiness mechanism. 

Chapter 7: Technical description of infra-red analysis including history of its use to study freezing in plants

Chapter 8: The mechanism of low temperature tolerance in fish                

Chapter 9: The mechanism enabling hibernation in mammals

 

Part 2: Adaptation mechanism for desiccation

Chapter 10: How tardigrades tolerate extreme environments?        

Chapter 11: Genome evolution associated with adaptations to extreme environments in chironomids                

Chapter 12: Physical chemistry of trehalose and LEA proteins            

Chapter 13: Mechanisms underlying desiccation tolerance in Bryophytes

Chapter 14: The role of reactive oxygen species on seed germination and dormancy under several environments.

Chapter15: Regulatory gene networks in drought stress responses and resistance

 

Part 3: Application Technology (from laboratory to society)

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16: Trait of supercooling-promoting substances –Toward real world application－             

Chapter 17: Cryopreservation of plant genetic resources              

Chapter 18: Basics and applications of antifreeze protein from Japanese organisms                

Chapter 19: Mechanism of cryoinjury of human embryonic stem cells (ESC) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and successful cryopreservation methods             

Chapter 20: Phase Transition and Quality Change in Food Product <

Chapter 21: Characteristics of ice and water on biomolecules (tentative)

Chapter 22: Development and application of cryoprotectants       &nbs

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Chapter 23: Application of protein and cell stabilization for pharmaceuticals          

O autorze

Mari Iwaya-Inoue is currently a professor emerita of Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, since 2017 and is also the auditor of the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Tsukuba, since 2015. Dr. Iwaya-Inoue has been a professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University (2004–2017) and also was appointed as vice dean of the Faculty of Agriculture (2013–2015) and vice president (Student Affairs, Promotion of Gender Equality) of Kyushu University (2014–2017). She is a regular contributor to the Japanese Society of Cryobiology and Cryotechnology and the Japanese Society of Crop Science, and she has been a member of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists and the Botanical Society of Japan, among others. Her research interest is plant–water relations, especially the effects of environmental stresses on physical states of water and nutrient accumulation mechanisms in crop seeds.

Minoru Sakurai has been a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Center for Biological Resources and Informatics) since 2003. Dr. Sakurai is a regular contributor to the Japanese Society of Cryobiology and Cryotechnology and is a member of the Biophysical Society of Japan, the Protein Science Society of Japan, the Chemical Society of Japan, and the American Chemical Society. His current research interests are experimental and theoretical elucidation of the mechanism of anhydrobiosis (life without water), and atomic-level elucidation of the functional mechanisms of ABC transporters based on first-principles computer simulations.

Matsuo Uemura is currently a professor in the Department of Plant–Biosciences, Iwate University (Morioka, Japan). Dr. Uemura has been a vice president (International Liaison and Public Relations) of Iwate University since 2014 as well as visiting professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Canada) since 2012. He is a member of the Japanese Society of Cryobiology and Cryotechnology, the Society for Cryobiology, the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, the Botanical Society of Japan, and the American Society of Plant Biologists, among other organizations. His research interests include membrane participation in plant cold acclimation and freezing injury and the molecular and physiological aspects of adaptation processes to low temperatures in plants.