Regulation of Transcription in Plants

Abstract

Part 1: Introducing the key players. 1. General transcription factors and the core promoter: ancient roots (William B. Gurley, Kevin O'Grady, Eva Czarnecka--Verner and Shai J. Lawit, Department of Microbiology & Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA). 2. Transcription Factors of Arabidopsis and Rice: a genomic perspective (Jose Luis Riechmann, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA). 3. Chromatin--associated architectural HMGA and HMGB proteins assist transcription factor function (Klaus D. Grasser and Dorte Launholt, Department of Life Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark). 4. Histone Modifications and Transcription in Plants (Yii Leng Chua , Hutchinson MRC Research Centre, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK. and John C. Gray, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK). 5. Chromatin remodeling and histone variants in transcriptional regulation and in maintaining DNA methylation (J.C. Reyes, Instituto de Bioquimica Vegetal y Fotosintesis, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas -- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, J. Brzeski, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland and Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. and A. Jerzmanowski, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland and Warsaw University, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Warsaw, Poland). 6. Matrix attachment regions and transcriptional gene silencing (William F. Thompson. Departments of Botany, Genetics, and Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA Steven Spiker, Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA and George C. Allen, Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA). 7. Polymerase I transcription (Julio Saez--Vasquez and Manuel Echeverria, Laboratoire Genome et Developpement de Plantes, Universite de Perpignan, France). Part 2: How transcription regulation in plants works. 8. Transcription of Plastid Genes (Karsten Liere and Thomas Borner, Institute of Biology (Genetics), Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany). 9. Control of Flowering Time (Steven van Nocker, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. and Maria Julissa Ek--Ramos, Departamento de Bioquimica, Facultad de Quimica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico). 10. Combinatorial control of floral organ identity by MADS--domain transcription factors (Gunter Theissen and Rainer Melzer, Friedrich--Schiller--Universitat Jena, Lehrstuhl fur Genetik, Jena, Germany). 11. Networks of transcriptional regulation underlying plant defense responses towards phytopathogens (Imre E. Somssich, Max--Planck--Institute for Plant Breeding, Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Koln, Germany). 12. Temperature regulated gene expression (Friedrich Schoffl and Tressa Jacob Panikulangara, ZMBP, Allgemeine Genetik, Universitat Tubingen, Germany). Part 3: Biotechnology--related issues. 13. Applications of inducible transcription in plant research and biotechnology (Brian Tomsett, Angela Tregova and Mark Caddick, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK). 14. Modulation of transcriptional networks in crop plants (Tong Zhu, Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc., North Carolina, USA).