Environmental Responses in Plants, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Methods and Protocols
Methods in Molecular Biology Series, Vol. 1398

This volume describes different up-to-date methodological approaches, ranging from physiological assays to imaging and molecular techniques, to study a wide variety of plant responses to environmental cues. Environmental Responses in Plants: Methods and Protocols is divided into four sections: Tropisms, Photoperiodism and Circadian Rhythms, Abiotic Stress Responses, and Plant-Pathogen Interactions. The chapters in these sections include detailed protocols to investigate some of the many key biological processes underlying plant environmental responses, mostly in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana, but also in Physcomitrella patens and in different crop species such as rice, potato, barley, or tomato. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Authoritative and practical, Environmental Responses in Plants: Methods and Protocols, is a great resource for plant physiologists, biochemists, and cell and molecular scientists interested in this exciting and fast-growing research topic.

PaPart I Tropisms

1.11. Hydrotropism: Analysis of the Root Response to a Moisture Gradient
Regina Antoni, Daniela Dietrich, Malcolm J. Bennett, and Pedro L. Rodriguez

2. Assessing Gravitropic Responses in Arabidopsis
Richard Barker, Benjamin Cox, Logan Silber, Arah Sangari, Amir Assadi, and Patrick Masson

3. Physiological Analysis of Phototropic Responses in Arabidopsis
Mathias Zeidler

4. Automatic Chloroplast Movement Analysis
Henrik Johansson and Mathias Zeidler

5. Micro

6. Immunolocalization of PIN and ABCB Transporters in Plants
Nicola Carraro and Wendy A. Peer

Part II Photoperiodism and Circasian Rhythms

8. Sample Preparation of Arabidopsis Thaliana Shoot Apices for Expression Studies of Photoperiod-Induced Genes 
Fernando Andrés, Stefano Torti, Coral Vincent, and George Coupland

9. A Luciferase-Based Assay to Test Whether Gene Expression Responses to Environmental Inputs are

10. Identification of Arabidopsis Transcriptional Regulators by Yeast One-Hyrbid Screens Using a Transcription Factor ORFeome
Ghislain Breton, Steve A. Kay, and José L. Pruneda-Paz

12. Assessing the Impact of Photosynthetic Sugars in the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock
Michael J. Haydon and Alex A. R. Webb

Part III Abiotic Stress Responses

14. Screening for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice: Salt, Cold, and Drought
Diego M. Almeida, M. Cecília Almadanim, Tiago Louren

15. Basic Techniques to Assess Seed Germination Responses to Abiotic Stress in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Urszula Piskurewicz and Luis Lopez-Molina

17. Assessing Drought Responses Using Thermals Infrared Imaging
Ankush Prashar and Hamlyn G. Jones

18. Generating Targeted Gene Knockout Lines in Physcomotrella Patens to Study Evolution of Stress- Responsive Mechanisms
Monika Maronova and Maria Kalyna

19. Screening Stress Tolerance Traits in Arabidopsis Cell Cultures
Imma P. Salamó, Bogáta Boros, and L

20. Using Arabidopsis Protoplasts to Study Cellular responses to Environmental Stress
Ana Confraria and Elena Baena-González

25. Tracing Plant Defense Responses in Roots Upon MAMP/DAMP Treatment
Kei Hiruma and Yusuke Saijo

26. Analysis of the Immunity=Related Oxidative Bursts by a Luminol-Based Assay
Marco Trujillo

27. Quantitative Analysis of Microbe-Associated-Molecular-Pattern (MAMP)-Induced Ca²⁺  Transients in Plants
Fabian Trempel, Stefanie Ranf, Dierk Scheel, and Justin Lee

28. Rapid Assessment of DNA Methylation Changes in Response to Salicylic Acid by Chop-qPCR
Stephanie Rausch and Sascha Laubinger

29. Determining Nucleosome Position at Individual Loci after Biotic Stress Using MNase-qPCR
Margaux Kaster and Sascha Laubinger

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Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols

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Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts

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