Progress in Botany Volume 69 Series Editors Ulrich Lüttge, TU Darmstadt, Institut für Botanik, FB Biologie (10), Schnittspahnstraße 3–5, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany Wolfram Beyschlag, Fakultät für Biologie, Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Ökologie und Ökosystembiologie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Jin Murata, Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 3-7-1 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0001, Japan Ulrich Lüttge • Wolfram Beyschlag • Jin Murata Editors Progress in Botany 69 Professor Dr. U. Lüttge Professor Dr. W. Beyschlag TU Darmstadt, Institut für Botanik Fakultät für Biologie FB Biologie (10) Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Ökologie Schnittspahnstraße 3–5 und Ökosystembiologie 64287 Darmstadt Universität Bielefeld Germany Universitätsstraße 25 [email protected] 33615 Bielefeld Germany [email protected] Professor Dr. J. 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Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Contents Review Ecophysiology: Migrations Between Different Levels of Scaling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Manfred Kluge Genetics Variability of Recombination Rates in Higher Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Elisabeth Esch and Renate Horn Functional Markers in Resistance Breeding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Christina Roenn Ingvardsen, Britt Schejbel, and Thomas Lübberstedt Extranuclear Inheritance: Plastid–Nuclear Cooperation in Photosystem I Assembly in Photosynthetic Eukaryotes . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Mark Aurel Schöttler and Ralph Bock Molecular Cell Biology: Are Reactive Oxygen Species Regulators of Leaf Senescence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Ulrike Zentgraf and Vera Hemleben Physiology Application of Laser-Assisted Microdissection for Tissue and Cell-Specific Analysis of RNA, Proteins, and Metabolites. . . . . . . . . 141 Dirk Hölscher and Bernd Schneider v vi Contents Plasma Membrane Redox Systems: Lipid Rafts and Protein Assemblies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Sabine Lüthje Subcellular Sites of Environmental Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Margarete Baier, Andrea Kandlbinder, Karl-Josef Dietz, and Dortje Golldack Oxidative Stress and Salt Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Cai-Hong Pang and Bao-Shan Wang Crassulacean Acid Metabolism: a Cause or Consequence of Oxidative Stress in Planta?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Ewa Niewiadomska and Anne M. Borland Cuscuta spp: “Parasitic Plants in the Spotlight of Plant Physiology, Economy and Ecology”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Markus Albert, Xana Belastegui-Macadam, Marc Bleischwitz, and Ralf Kaldenhoff Ecology Bayesian Data–Model Integration in Plant Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Kiona Ogle and Jarrett J. Barber Quaternary Palaeoecology: Africa and its Surroundings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Burkhard Frenzel The Application of Novel Optical Sensors (Optodes) in Experimental Plant Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Dirk Gansert and Stephan Blossfeld Indirect Defence – Recent Developments and Open Questions . . . . . . . . 359 Martin Heil Contents vii Functional Differences in Soil Water Pools: a New Perspective on Plant Water Use in Water-Limited Ecosystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Ronald J. Ryel, Carolyn Y. Ivans, Michael S. Peek, and A. Joshua Leffler Plant Herbivore Interactions at the Forest Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 Rainer Wirth, Sebastian T. Meyer, Inara R. Leal, and Marcelo Tabarelli Getting Plant–Soil Feedbacks out of the Greenhouse: Experimental and Conceptual Approaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 Andrew Kulmatiski and Paul Kardol Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 Contributors Markus Albert ZMBP–AG Felix, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany, [email protected] Margarete Baier Department of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, W5/117 Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld, Universitaetstrasse 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany Jarrett J. Barber Department of Statistics, Department of Botany, Box 3165, University of Wyoming 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071, USA Xana Belastegui-Macadam ZMBP–AG Felix University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Marc Bleischwitz ZMBP–AG Felix, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Stephan Blossfeld Department of Ecological Plant Physiology & Geobotany, University of Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany Ralph Bock Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany, [email protected] Anne M. Borland School of Biology and Psychology, Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability, Devonshire Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK, [email protected] ix x Contributors Karl-Josef Dietz Department of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, W5/117 Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld, Universitaetstrasse 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany Elisabeth Esch Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Universität Hannover, Herrenhäuser Strasse 2, D-30419 Hannover, Germany Burkhard Frenzel Institut für Botanik und Botanischer Garten 210, Universität Hohenheim, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany, [email protected] Dirk Gansert Department of Ecology & Ecosystem Research, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany, [email protected] Dortje Golldack Department of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, W5/117 Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld, Universitaetstrasse 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany, [email protected] Martin Heil Departamento de Ingeniería Genética, CINVESTAV–Irapuato, Km. 9.6 Libramiento Norte, CP 36821, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, [email protected] Vera Hemleben ZMBP, General Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Dirk Hölscher Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Beutenberg Campus Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, D-07745 Jena, Germany Renate Horn Institut für Biowissenschaften, Abtl. Pflanzengenetik, Universität Rostock, Albert- Einstein-Strasse 3, D-18051 Rostock, Germany, renate.horn @uni-rostock.de Christina Roenn Ingvardsen Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Research Centre Flakkebjerg, University of Aarhus, Forsoegsvej 1, DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark. Christina. [email protected] Carolyn Y. Ivans Campbell Scientific, Inc., Logan, UT 84321, USA Ralf Kaldenhoff ZMBP–AG Felix University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Contributors xi Andrea Kandlbinder Department of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, W5/117 Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld, Universitaetstrasse 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany Paul Kardol Center for Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), PO Box 40, 6666 ZG Heteren, The Netherlands Manfred Kluge Institute of Botany, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schnittspahnstrasse 10, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany, [email protected] Andrew Kulmatiski Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center Utah State University Logan, UT 84322, USA, [email protected] Inara R. Leal Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 50670-901 Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil A. Joshua Leffler Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5230, USA Thomas Lübberstedt Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Research Centre Flakkebjerg, University of Aarhus, Forsoegsvej 1, DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark. Sabine Lüthje Biozentrum Klein Flottbek und Botanischer Garten, Universität Hamburg, Ohnhorststrasse 18, D-22609 Hamburg, Germany, [email protected] Sebastian T. Meyer Plant Ecology & Systematics, University of Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Ewa Niewiadomska Institute of Plant Physiology Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 21, 30-239 Krakow, Poland Kiona Ogle Department of Botany and Department of Statistics, Department of Botany, Box 3165, University of Wyoming 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071, USA, [email protected] Cai-Hong Pang College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, Shandong Province, PR China xii Contributors Michael S. Peek Department of Biology, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, USA Ronald J. Ryel Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84322-5230, USA, [email protected] Britt Schejbel Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Research Centre Flakkebjerg, University of Aarhus, Forsoegsvej 1, DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark. Bernd Schneider Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Beutenberg Campus Hans-Knöll-Str. 8, D-07745 Jena, Germany, [email protected] Mark Aurel Schöttler Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany Marcelo Tabarelli Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 50670-901 Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil Bao-Shan Wang College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, Shandong Province, PR China, [email protected] Rainer Wirth Plant Ecology & Systematics, University of Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany, [email protected] Ulrike Zentgraf ZMBP, General Genetics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany, [email protected]