Preface ......................................................... v
Contributors ................................................... xi
Part I Reviews and Overview Chapters
1 Dehydration Tolerance in Plants .............................. 3
Melvin J. Oliver, John C. Cusbman, and Karen L. Koster
2 Approaches to Identifying Genes for Salinity Tolerance
and the Importance of Timescale ............................. 25
Rana Munns
3 Gene Regulation During Cold Stress Acclimation in Plants .... 39
Viswanathan Chinnusamy, Jian-Kang Zhu, and Ramanjulu Sunkar
4 Redox-Dependent Regulation, Redox Control and Oxidative
Damage in Plant Cells Subjected to Abiotic Stress ........... 57
Karl-Josef Dietz
5 Array Platforms and Bioinformatics Tools for the Analysis
of Plant Transcriptome in Response to Abiotic Stress ........ 71
Nese Sreenivasulu, Ramanjulu Sunkar, Ulrich Wobus, and
Marc Strickert
6 Metabolic Engineering of Glyoxalase Pathway for Enhancing
Stress Tolerance in Plants .................................. 95
Ananda Mustafiz, Khirod K. Sahoo, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek,
and Sudhir K. Sopory
Part II Genome-Wide Approaches for Identification of Stress-
Regulated Genes, Proteins, and Small RNAs
7 Genetic Screens to Identify Plant Stress Genes ............. 121
Csaba Papdi, Jeffrey Leung, Mary Prathiba Joseph, Imma
Perez Salamу, and László Szabados
8 Arabidopsis Tiling Array Analysis to Identify the Stress-
Responsive Genes ........................................... 141
Akihiro Matsui, Junko Ishida, Taeko Morosawa, Masanori
Okamoto, Jong-Myong Kim, Yukio Kuribara, Makiko
Kawasbima, Maho Tanaka, Taiko Kim To, Kentaro Nakaminami,
Eli Kaminuma, Takaho A. Endo, Yoshiki Mochizuki, Shuji
Kawaguchi, Norio Kobayashi, Kazuo Shinozaki, Tetsuro
Toyoda, and Motoaki Seki
9 Identification of Stress-Responsive Genes in Plants
Using Suppression Subtraction Hybridization: Ozone
Stress as an Example ....................................... 157
Lila Peal, Michael Puckette, and Ramamurthy Mahalingam
10 Identification of DNA-Binding Proteins and Protein-Protein
Interactions by Yeast One-Hybrid and Yeast Two-Hybrid
Screen ..................................................... 171
Peter Klein and Karl-Josef Dietz
11 Functional Characterization of Water-Deficit Stress
Responsive Genes Using RNAi ................................ 193
Muthappa Senthil-Kumar, Makarla Udayakumar, and
Kirankumar S. Mysore
12 Difference Gel Electrophoresis as a Tool to Discover
Stress-Regulated Proteins .................................. 207
Jenny Renaut
13 Thiol-Disulfide Redox Proteomics in Plant Research ......... 219
Meenakumari Muthuramalingam, Karl-Josef Dietz, and Elke
Ströher
14 Cloning of Stress-Responsive MicroRNAs and other Small
RNAs from Plants ........................................... 239
Jose Luis Reyes, Catalina Arenas-Huertero, and Ramanjulu
Sunkar
15 An Array Platform for Identification of Stress-Responsive
MicroRNAs in Plants ........................................ 253
Xiaoyun Jia, Venugopal Men Ли, and Guiliang Tang
Part III Antioxidant Enzymes and Metabolites
16 Spectrophotometric Assays for Antioxidant Enzymes in
Plants ..................................................... 273
Sathya Elavarthi and Bjorn Martin
17 Affinity Purification and Determination of Enzymatic
Activity of Recombinantly Expressed Aldehyde
Dehydrogenases ............................................. 281
Hans-Hubert Kirch and Horst Röhrig
18 Determination and Detection of Reactive Oxygen Species
(ROS), Lipid Peroxidation, and Electrolyte Leakage in
Plants ..................................................... 291
Niranjani Jambunathan
Part IV Osmotic Adjustment and Ion Measurements
19 Quantification of Water Stress-Induced Osmotic Adjustment
and Proline Accumulation for Arabidopsis thaliana
Molecular Genetic Studies .................................. 301
Paul E. Verslues
20 Methods for Determination of Proline in Plants ............. 317
Edit Abraham, Cecile Hourton-Cabassa, László Erdei,
and László Szabados
21 A New Method for Accurately MeasuringΔ1Pyrroline-5-
Carboxylate Synthetase Activity ............................ 333
Elodie Parre, Jacques de Virville, Françoise Cochet,
Anne-Sophie Leprince, Luc Richard, Delphine Lefebvre-De
Vos, Mohamed Ali Ghars, Marianne Bordenave, Alain
Zachowski, and Arnould Savouré
22 Extraction and Analysis of Soluble Carbohydrates ........... 341
Niels Maness
23 Measuring Soluble Ion Concentrations (Na+, K+, Cl-)
in Salt-Treated Plants ..................................... 371
Rana Munns, Patricia A. Wallace, Natasha L. Teakle, and
Timothy D. Colmer Subject
Index ......................................................... 383
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