Provides a comprehensive survey of various aspects of the recognition and transduction of plant signals of both chemical and physical origin such as hormones, light, toxins and elicitors. This work presents different approaches to studying the recognition and transduction of different signals which trigger molecular processes in plants.

Increasing interest has been emerging in the last decade in the field of signal recognition and transduction. This is particularly true for animal systems where an impressive amount of literature is appearing and where many important pathways have been clarified at a molecular level. In the elucidation of the functions of single components of a given pathway, gene cloning has played a major role and opened the field to the genetic engineering of these complex systems. At variance with this situation, plant systems are less well elucidated, even if in recent years exciting research of...