Plant Cuticles - an integrated functional approach

G. Kerstiens, editor

337 + xiv pages. BIOS Scientific Publishers, Oxford.
ISBN 1 85996 130 4
1996              £80.00
 

Table of contents:

• D Edwards, GD Abbott and JA Raven:

Cuticles of early land plants: a palaeoecophysiological evaluation.
• CE Jeffree:

Structure and ontogeny of plant cuticles.
• PE Kolattukudy:

Biosynthetic pathways of cutin and waxes, and their sensitivity to environmental stresses.
• L Schreiber, T Kirsch and M Riederer:

Diffusion through cuticles: principles and models.
• G Kerstiens:

Diffusion of water vapour and gases across cuticles and through stomatal pores presumed closed.
• J Schonherr and P Baur:

Effects of temperature, surfactants and other adjuvants on rates of uptake of organic compounds.
• JD Barnes and J Cardoso-Vilhena:

Interactions between electromagnetic radiation and the plant cuticle.
• K Mendgen:

Fungal attachment and penetration.
• M Riederer and C Markstadter:

Cuticular waxes - a critical assessment of current knowledge.
• SD Eigenbrode:

Plant surface waxes and insect behaviour.
• KE Espelie:

Integrated case study: effects of maize leaf epicuticular lipids on insect pests.
• DM Jackson and DA Danehower:

Integrated case study: Nicotiana leaf-surface components and their effects on insect pests and diseases.
• TLW Carver, SM Ingerson and BJ Thomas:

Influences of host surface features on development of Erysiphe graminis and Erysiphe pisi.
• DR Butler:

The presence of water on leaf surfaces and its importance for microbes and insects.
• JN Cape:

Surface wetness and pollutant deposition.
• S Huttunen:

Interactions between epiphytic microbes and deposited compounds.
• J Grace and PR van Gardingen:

Plant cuticles under challenge.

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