"Brassinosteroids"

Bioactivity and Crop Productivity

edited by S. Hayat and A. Ahmad

Kluwer, November 2003, 260 pages. $149.00 + Shipping and handling: $8.00 for U.S. delivery, $20.00 elsewhere).

Brassinosteroids are plant hormones with significant growth-promoting capacity. Moreover, brassinosteroids influence seed germination, rhizogenesis, flowering, senescence, abscission and maturation. Brassinosteroids also confer resistance to plants against abiotic stresses. Brassinosteroids are, therefore, considered as plant hormones with pleotropic effects.

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date account of the brassinosteroids, incorporating both theoretical and practical aspects. The contributors to this book are experts of international repute. Each chapter presents a review of the available literature and provides insight into current thinking by pointing out the limitations and gaps in the present knowledge and directing the way forward for further research.

Separate chapters deal with the chemical structures, occurrence, synthesis, perception, signal transduction and practical applicability of the brassinosteroids and their analogs. The basic difference, with available reviews, here is the emphasis given to crops improvement by the application of brassinosteroids.

Brassinosteroids: Bioactivity and Crop Productivity shall be a rich source of recent knowledge on brassinosteroids, for all students and researchers, particularly in the area of plant hormones, plant physiology and crop productivity.

CONTENTS

Preface. Contributors. 1. The chemical structures and occurrence of brassinosteroids in plants; A. Bajguz, A. Tretyn. 2. Selected physiological responses of brassinosteroids: A historical approach; J. Castle, T. Montoya, G.J. Bishop. 3. Recent progress in brassinosteroid research: Hormone perception and signal transduction; M. Fellner. 4. Synthesis and practical applications of brassinosteroid analogs; M. Náñez Vázquez, C. Robaina Rodríguez, F. Coll Manchado. 5. Brassinosteroids promote seed germination; G. Leubner-Metzger. 6. Brassinosteroid-driven modulation of stem elongation and apical dominance: Applications in micropropagation; A.B. Pereira-Netto, S. Schaefer, J.A. Ramirez, L.R. Galagovsky. 7. Studies on physiological action and application of 24-epibrassinolide in agriculture; Zhao Yu Ju, Chen Ji-chu. 8. Brassinosteroids and brassinosteroid analogues inclusion complexes in cyclodextrins; M.A. Teixeira Zullo, M. de Burgos Martins de Azevedo. 9. New practical aspects of brassinosteroids and results of their ten-year agricultural use in Russia and Belarus; V.A. Khripach, V.N. Zhabinskii, N.B. Khripach. 10. Brassinosteroids: A regulator of the 21st century; S. Hayat, A. Ahmad, Q. Fariduddin.

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