Contents
Vegetation, Climate and Soil: 50 Years of Global Ecology . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Siegmar-W. Breckle
Engineering Plants for the Future: Farming with Value-Added
Harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Silvia Massa, Ombretta Presenti, and Eugenio Benvenuto
Sequencing Plant Genomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Daniel G. Peterson and Mark Arick II
NAC Transcription Factors in Woody Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Mª Belén Pascual, Fernando de la Torre, Rafael A. Cañas,
Francisco M. Cánovas, and Concepción Ávila
On the Elaborate Network of Thioredoxins in Higher Plants . . . . . . . . . 223
Ina Thormählen, Belén Naranjo, José Abraham Trujillo-Hernandez,
Jean-Philippe Reichheld, Francisco Javier Cejudo, and Peter Geigenberger
From Aspartate to Ethylene: Central Role of N, C, and S Shuttles
by Aminotransferases During Biosynthesis of a Major Plant Growth
Hormone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
E. Le Deunff
Understanding the Factors Influencing Stem Form with Modelling
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Robert Schneider
Northern Forest Trees Under Increasing Atmospheric Humidity . . . . . . 317
Elina Oksanen, Jenna Lihavainen, Markku Keinänen, Sarita Keski-Saari,
Sari Kontunen-Soppela, Arne Sellin, and Anu Sõber
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Vegetation, Climate and Soil: 50 Years of Global Ecology . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Siegmar-W. Breckle
Engineering Plants for the Future: Farming with Value-Added
Harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Silvia Massa, Ombretta Presenti, and Eugenio Benvenuto
Sequencing Plant Genomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Daniel G. Peterson and Mark Arick II
NAC Transcription Factors in Woody Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Mª Belén Pascual, Fernando de la Torre, Rafael A. Cañas,
Francisco M. Cánovas, and Concepción Ávila
On the Elaborate Network of Thioredoxins in Higher Plants . . . . . . . . . 223
Ina Thormählen, Belén Naranjo, José Abraham Trujillo-Hernandez,
Jean-Philippe Reichheld, Francisco Javier Cejudo, and Peter Geigenberger
From Aspartate to Ethylene: Central Role of N, C, and S Shuttles
by Aminotransferases During Biosynthesis of a Major Plant Growth
Hormone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
E. Le Deunff
Understanding the Factors Influencing Stem Form with Modelling
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Robert Schneider
Northern Forest Trees Under Increasing Atmospheric Humidity . . . . . . 317
Elina Oksanen, Jenna Lihavainen, Markku Keinänen, Sarita Keski-Saari,
Sari Kontunen-Soppela, Arne Sellin, and Anu Sõber
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