PROBLEMS IN BOTANY

By ANTHONY GONZALEZ

CONTENTS PLANT DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANOGENESIS: FROM BASIC PRINCIPLES TO APPLIED RESEARCH PLANT CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY: FOLLOWING MARIOTTI’S STEPS PATTERNING THE AXES: A LESSON FROM THE ROOT CYTOKININ-DEPENDENT CONTROL OF GH3 GROUP II FAMILY GENES IN THE ARABIDOPSIS ROOT STRESS-TRIGGERED LONG-DISTANCE COMMUNICATION LEADS TO PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY: THE CASE OF THE EARLY ROOT PROTOXYLEM MATURATION INDUCED BY LEAF WOUNDING IN ARABIDOPSIS FROM A RHIZOGENES ROLD TO PLANT P5CS: EXPLOITING PROLINE TO CONTROL PLANT DEVELOPMENT THE CLV-WUS STEM CELL SIGNALING PATHWAY: A ROADMAP TO CROP YIELD OPTIMIZATION ORGANOGENESIS AT THE SHOOT APICAL MERISTEM DRAWING A LINE: GRASSES AND BOUNDARIES PLANT VASCULAR TISSUES—CONNECTING TISSUE COMES IN ALL SHAPES MULTIPLE PATHWAYS IN THE CONTROL OF THE SHADE AVOIDANCE RESPONSE TRANSLATING FLOWERING TIME FROM ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA TO BRASSICACEAE AND ASTERACEAE CROP SPECIES USING MORPHOGENIC GENES TO IMPROVE RECOVERY AND REGENERATION OF TRANSGENIC PLANTS INHERITANCE AND GENETIC MAPPING OF THE REDUCED HEIGHT (RHT18) GENE IN WHEAT TWO RYE GENES RESPONSIBLE FOR ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF WHEAT–RYE HYBRIDS ARE LINKED IN THE VICINITY OF AN EVOLUTIONARY TRANSLOCATION ON CHROMOSOME 6R