Molecular and Cell Biology of the Plant Cell Cycle

Considerable advances have been made in our understanding of the eukaryotic cell cycle at the molecular level over the past two decades or so, particularly in yeast and in animal systems. However, only in the past three or four years has progress been made in plants at the molecular level. The present volume brings together molecular biologists, cell biologists and physiologists to discuss this recent progress and how it relates to our understanding of the regulation of plant growth and development.
The opening paper summarises the progress which has been made with fission yeast. Subsequent papers explore what is known about cell cycle control at the molecular level in plants, and about cell cycle regulation in specific physiological systems, ending with summary papers on cell division in roots and shoots.
The book comprises up-to-date findings on a fundamental aspect of plant growth and development, and as such will be of particular interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and research scientists in the fields of molecular biology, cell biology and physiology.

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The controls acting at mitosis in "Schizosaccharomyces pombe", J. Hayles and P. Nurse; a p34cdc2-based cell cycle - its significance in monocoyledenous, dicotyledenous and unicellular plants, P.C.L. John, et al; isolation of arabidopsis homologues to yeast cell cycle genes, F.Z. Watts, et al; the molecular genetics and biochemistry of DNA replication, S.J. Aves and J.A. Bryant; control of initiation of DNA replication in plants, M.R.H. Buddles, et al; nuclear proteins and the release from quiescence of root meristematic cells in pisum sativum, D. Chiatante; histone H24 expression during s-phase - histological co-localization of H2A mRNA and DNA synthesis in pea root tips, E.Y. Tanimoto, et al; molecular characterization of cell populations in the maize root apex, P.A. Sabelli; key components of cell cycle control during auxin-induced cell division, D. Dudits, et al; auxin-mediated activation of DNA synthesis via par genes in tobacco mesophyll protoplasts, T. Nagata and Y. Takahashi; polyamines and protein modification during the cell cycle, S. Del Duca and D. Serafini-Fracassini; cytoskeletal analysis of maize meiotic mutants, C.J. Staiger, W.Z. Cande; cell cycle regulation in cultured cells, D.E. Hanke; the cell division cycle in relation to root organogenesis, P.W. Barlow; regulation of cell division in the shoot apex, D. Francis and R.J. Herbert.