Functional genomic of receptor kinases in Solanum chacoense

This book is a must-read for scholars and academicsstarting research on plant receptor kinases. Thefirst chapter details the mechanistic of plantreceptor kinase structure and activation and detailsthe roles of each domain and their properties andcompares it with what is known of receptor animalkinase activation. The following chapters present anextensive review of small putative signaling peptidesthat could potentially bind receptor kinase and asubtraction method for EST sequencing to enrich inweakly expressed mRNAs. The last two chapters presenta case study of two novels plant receptor kinasesdiscovered using the subtraction method followed by athorough functional analysis using biochemicalhistochemical and transgenic approaches in thecontext of ovules and fruit development in plants.