Hock and Erich (2005) - Plant Toxicology - 4th Edition

Title : Plant Toxicology - 4th Edition
Editors : Bertold Hock and Erich F. Elstner
Publisher : Marcel Dekker, New York
Pages : 664 pages
Language : English
ISBN : 0929-1873

Description :

In order to keep track of all the compounds and pathogens affecting plant metabolism and development, you would need to spend all your waking hours combing periodicals and the Internet in dozens of languages, as new toxins via pollutants and migratory or mutant pathogens are being discovered every day.
Plant Toxicology, Fourth Edition starts with a basic overview of the plant as a complex living organism. The first chapters introduce plant structure and organization. Starting with the cell as the smallest elementary unit, the emphasis is on plant-specific features with respect to their susceptibility to environmental contaminants.
Hock and Elstner, who between them have published over 500 original papers on plants and plant disease, called upon experts from across the world to contribute to this essential text. The book analyzes processes central to plant metabolism, including uptake, distribution, and secretion of toxic material, and focuses on the recognition and prevention of damage associated with environmental pollutants. It studies diseases caused by viruses, subviral organisms, phytoplasmas, fungal and bacterial pathogens.
Learn about Pathology in Plants as an Integral Interconnected Facet of their Environment
The text is designed to enable you to classify and target specific forms of plant damage. Equally important, it never loses sight of the princple that plants are not isolated organisms, but rather exist as participants in complex environments, which must be taken into account when studying the delivery and impact of toxins.
Supplying more than 1500 current references, Plant Toxicology, Fourth Edition is required reading for all plant, crop, soil, and environmental scientists; botanists; agronomists; agriculturists; horticulturists; biochemists; foresters; plant growers; and upper level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Content :
1. Characteristics of Plant Life: Hazards from Pollutants
Bertold Hock and Nicola M. Wolf
2. Plant Stress: Avoidance, Adaptation, Defense
Harald Schempp, Susanne Hippeli, and Erich F. Elstner
3. Uptake and Transport of Xenobiotics
Markus Riederer
4. Air Pollution: Trace Gases as Inducers of Plant Damage
Harald Schempp, Susanne Hippeli, Erich F. Elstner, and Christian Langebartels
5. Limitation of Salt Stress to Plant Growth
Yuncai Hu and Urs Schmidhalter
6. Mineral Element Toxicities: Aluminum and Manganese
Walter J. Horst, Angelika Staß, and Marion M. Fecht-Christoffers
7. Herbicides
Carl Fedtke and Stephen O. Duke
8. Molecular Basis of Toxic Effects: Inhibition of Cellular Pathways and Structural Component
K. Kramer and Bertold Hock
9. Metabolism and Elimination of Toxicants
K. K. Hatzios
10. Host–Pathogen Relations: Diseases Caused by Viruses, Subviral Organisms, and Phytoplasmas
Bala´zs Barna and Lo´ra´nt Kiraly
11. Interactions Between Host Plants and Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens
Ingrid Heiser, Jorg Durner, and Christian Langebartels
12. Allelopathy
Astrid Lux-Endrich and Bertold Hock

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