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Plant Toxicology, Fourth Edition
Edited by Bertold Hock; Erich F Elstner
CRC Press
2004
Hardback 662 pp ISBN 0824753232
£75.00
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This book
- Considers the effects of air, water, and soil pollutants on plants as well as the molecular basis of toxic
effects with respect to plant structure and function.
- Supplies numerous horticultural and agricultural examples to illustrate key topics in the text
- Discusses recent detoxification and remediation strategies
- Contains a detailed index for quick reference
- Provides a thorough and unique overview of plants as a complex hierarchy of structures comprised
of organs, tissues, and cells
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.
Contents
Preface iii
Contributors vii
Characteristics of Plant Life: Hazards from Pollutants
Bertold Hock and Nicola M. Wolf
Plant Stress: Avoidance, Adaptation, Defense
Harald Schempp, Susanne Hippeli, and Erich F. Elstner
Uptake and Transport of Xenobiotics
Markus Riederer
Air Pollution: Trace Gases as Inducers of Plant Damage
Harald Schempp, Susanne Hippeli, Erich F. Elstner,
and Christian Langebartels
Limitation of Salt Stress to Plant Growth
Yuncai Hu and Urs Schmidhalter
Mineral Element Toxicities: Aluminum and Manganese
Walter J. Horst, Angelika Staß, and Marion M. Fecht-Christoffers
Herbicides
Carl Fedtke and Stephen O. Duke
Molecular Basis of Toxic Effects: Inhibition of
Cellular Pathways and Structural Components
K. Kramer and Bertold Hock
Metabolism and Elimination of Toxicants
K. K. Hatzios
Host-Pathogen Relations: Diseases Caused by Viruses,
Subviral Organisms, and Phytoplasmas
Bala€zs Barna and Lo€ra€nt Kira€ly
Interactions Between Host Plants and Fungal
and Bacterial Pathogens
Ingrid Heiser, Jorg Durner, and Christian Langebartels
Allelopathy
Astrid Lux-Endrich and Bertold Hock
Index
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