Model Systems to Study the Excretory Function of Higher Plants [Paperback]

The secretory activity of plants is a manifestation of the fundamental property of all living organisms: the ability to exchange substances and energy with the environment. This book summarizes todays knowledge of all such secretory activities of higher plants. It equally considers the cellular aspects, intratissular and external secretion, gas excretion and the excretion of substances under extreme conditions as well as the biological effects of plant excreta. The first edition of the book was published in Russian in Moscow in 1989 (Nauka Publishing House), then the English larger variant  in Heidelberg-Berlin 1993 (Springer-Verlag).

Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Approaches to Choice of Model Systems for Microscopic Studies.- 1.1. Colour and Absorbance in Analysis.- 1.1.1. Usual Microscopy and Stereomicroscopy.- 1.2.1. Auto fluorescence of Secretory Components.- 1.2.2. Special Fluorescent Probes or Markers.- 1.2.3. Fluorescence-related Technique.- 1.2.3.1. Luminescence Microscopy.- 1.2.3.2. Microspectrofluorimetry.- 1.2.3.3. Confocal Microscopy.- 1.2.3.4. Images and the Fluorescence Spectra of Cells in Cytodiagnostics.- 1.3. Cellular Observation of Secretory Process.- 1.3.1. Secretion Transport and Excretion.- 1.3.2. Reactions of Models  Acceptors Sensitive to Secretory Products.- 2. Intact Secretory Cells as Models  Donors of Secretions.- 2.1. Intracellular Secretion.- 2.1.1. Models of Secretion into Vacuole.- 2.1.1.1. Models with Pigments in Vacuoles.- 2.1.1.2. Models for Analysis of Alkaloids Accumulation in Isolated Vacuole.- 2.1. Intratissue Secretory Systems.- 2.2.1. Laticifers as Models.- 2.2.2. Idioblasts.- 2.3. External Secretion.- 2.3.1. Secretion into Free Space.- 2.3.2. Models of External Secretions.- 2.3.2.1. Single Cell-Models.- 2.3.2.2. Multicellular Models.- 3. Models  Acceptors of Secretions and their Reactions on Exometabolites.- 3.1. Biosensors and their Sensitive Reactions.- 3.1.1. Exometabolites as Chemosignals.- 3.1.1.1. Amine-ContlĂ2