Part I Anatomical and Morphological Strategies of Roots
1 Anatomy of Root from Eyes of a Microbiologist ................ 3
Smriti Shrivastava, Ram Prasad, and Ajit Varma
2 Role of Phi Cells Under Abiotic Stress in Plants ............ 23
Nieves Fernández-García, Carmen López-Berenguer, and
Enrique Olmos
3 Root System Architecture .................................... 39
Beata Orman-Ligeza, René Civava, Sophie de Dorlodot, and
Xavier Draye
4 Root Growth Model Based on Swarm Intelligence ............... 57
Tomé Matos, Cristina Cruz, and Luis Correia
5 The Development of the Maize Root System: Role of Auxin
and Ethylene ................................................ 75
María Victoria Alarcón, Pedro G. Lloret, and Julio Salguero
Part II Rhizosphere and Microorganisms
6 Mycorrhizosphere: The Role of PGPR ......................... 107
Rosario Azcón
7 How Root Structure Defines the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Symbiosis and What We Can Learn from It? ................... 145
Beatriz Dreyer, Mario Honrubia, and Asuncion Morte
8 How Ectomycorrhizae Structures Boost the Root System? ...... 171
Javier Parladé, Beatriz Águeda, Luz Marina Fernández-
Toirán, Fernando Martínez-Реñа, and Ana María de Miguel
9 Functions of Root Fungal Endophytes ........................ 193
К. Sowjanya Sree, Manjita Mishra, Aditya Saran,
S.K. Singh, R.K. Sharma, K.V.S.S. Ram, and Ajit Varma
10 Strigolactones Involvement in Root Development and
Communications ............................................. 203
Hinanit Koltai and Yoram Kapuluik
11 Root Exudation: The Role of Secondary Metabolites, Their
Localisation in Roots and Transport into the Rhizosphere ... 221
Leslie A. Weston and Ulrike Mathesius
Part III Physiological Strategies of Roots
12 Root Strategies for Nitrate Assimilation ................... 251
Jose S. Rubio-Asensio, Carmen López-Berenguer, Jesús
García-de la Garma, Martin Burger, and Arnold J. Bloom
13 Root Aquaporins ............................................ 269
Thorsten Knipfer and Wieland Fricke
14 Root Strategies for Rill and Gully Erosion Control ......... 297
S. De Baets, T.A. Quine, and J. Poesen
15 Root System Response to Drought and Salinity: Root
Distribution and Water Transport ........................... 325
M. Jesus Sánchez-Blanco, Sara Álvarez, M. Fernanda
Ortuño, and M. Carmen Ruiz-Sánchez
16 Cluster Roots .............................................. 353
Alejandra Zúñiga-Feest, Mabel Delgado, and Ángela
Bustos
17 The Role of Roots in Plant Defense Responses to
Aboveground Herbivores ..................................... 369
Vamsi J. Nalam and Punya Nachappa
Part IV Applied Engineering of Roots
18 Advances in Transformed Root Cultures for Root Biofactory
and Phytoremediation Research .............................. 387
Jutta Ludwig-Müller, Jianfeng Xu, Elizabeth Agostini,
and Milen I. Georgiev
19 Root Proteomics ............................................ 407
Mohammad-Zaman Nouri and Setsuko Komatsu
20 Adventitious Root Development in Ornamental Plants:
Insights from Carnation Stem Cuttings ...................... 423
Antonio Cano, José Manuel Peréz-Pérez, and Manuel Acosta
21 Roots of Medicinal Importance .............................. 443
Aparajita Das, Vipin M. Dan, George Varughese, and Ajit
Varma
22 Root and Root Endophytes from the Eyes of an Electron
Microscopist ............................................... 469
Binggan Lou, Bing Peng, Nianhang Rong, Yunqin Li, Hanmin
Chen, K. Sowjanya Sree, Qikang Gao, and Ajit Varma
Erratum to Chapter 8: How Ectomycorrhizae Structures
Boost the Root System? ......................................... El
Beatriz Águeda, Javier Parladé, Luz Marina Fernandez-
Toirán, Fernando Martínez-Peña, and Ana María de Miguel
Index ......................................................... 487
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