Progress in Botany

Part I. Review

1. Ants, Plants and Fungi: A View on Some Patterns of Interaction and Diversity
Andreas Bresinsky

Part II. Genetics

2. ABA as a Universal Plant Hormone
Yoichi Sakata, Kenji Komatsu, Daisuke Takezawa

3. Reduced Genomes from Parasitic Plant Plastids: Templates for Minimal Plastomes?
Kirsten Krause, Lars B. Scharff

Part III. Physiology

4. Nucleotides and Nucleosides: Transport, Metabolism, and Signaling Function of Extracellular ATP
Torsten Möhlmann, Iris Steinebrunner, Ekkehard Neuhaus

5. Regulation of PPi Levels Through the Vacuolar Membrane H+-Pyrophosphatase
Ali Ferjani, Shoji Segami, Mariko Asaoka, Masayoshi Maeshima

6. Interactions Between Nutrients and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism
Maria Aurineide Rodrigues, Luciano Freschi, Paula Natália Pereira, Helenice Mercier

7. Guttation: Quantification, Microbiology and Implications for Phytopathology
Sanjay Singh

8. Adaptation of Rice to Flooded Soils
G. J. D. Kirk, H. Greenway, B. J. Atwell, A. M. Ismail, T. D. Colmer

9. Physiological Mechanisms of Flooding Tolerance in Rice: Transient Complete Submergence and Prolonged Standing Water
T. D. Colmer, W. Armstrong, H. Greenway, A. M. Ismail, G. J. D. Kirk, B. J. Atwell

Part IV. Ecology

10. Beyond Mutualism: Complex Mycorrhizal Interactions
C. S. Bledsoe, M. F. Allen, D. Southworth

11. Ecology of Phreatophytes
Frank M. Thomas

12. Some Like It Hot: Are Desert Plants Indifferent to Climate Change?
Katja Tielbörger, Roberto Salguero-Gómez

Avainsanat: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences