Cellular Communication in Plants

This is an exciting period in plant biology as many disciplines such as genetics and biochemistry are merging to provide a more detailed understanding of plant growth and development. The purpose of this meeting was to provide a sampling of some of this exciting work in the area of cellular communication and signal transduction. R. M. Amasino vii CONTENTS Auxin-Binding Proteins and their Possible Role in Cell Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alan M. Jones Signal Perception in Plants: Hepta-B-Glucoside Elicitor Binding Proteins in Soybean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Michael G. Hahn Jong-Joo Cheong Robert M. Alba and Franfois Cote The Role of Salicylic Acid as a Plant Signal Molecule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Paul Silverman Rebecca A. Linzer and Ilya Raskin Blue-Light Regulated Gene Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Lon S. Kaufman Kathleen A. Marrs Katherine M. F. Warpeha Jie Gao Keshab Bhattacharya Judi TIlghman and John F. Marsh III Role of the Maize Viviparous-l Gene in Regulation of Seed Maturation . . . . . . . . . 27 Donald R. McCarty Lovastatin Induces Cytokinin Dependence in Tobacco Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Dring N. Crowell and Michael S. Salaz Molecular Genetic Approaches to Elucidating the Role of Hormones in Plant Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Harry Klee and Charles Romano Reversible Inhibition of Tomato Fruit Ripening by Antisense ACC Synthase RNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Athanasios Theologis Paul W. Oeller and Lu Min-Wong Genetic Dissection of Signal Transduction Pathways that Regulate cab Gene Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Joanne Chory Lothar Altschmied Hector Cabrera Hsou-min Li and Ronald Susek The Role of KNI in Plant Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .