Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

role of divalent calcium (Ca^2 ) cations as one of the key signaling molecules has been known for a long time in animal systems ...

A similar approach has been used to measure elevated [Ca^2 ]cytlevels in Arabidopsis[36,42,73] and in the moss plant Physcomitr ...

Using luminescence-imaging technology, the spatial and temporal pattern of elevated [Ca^2 ]cytin re- sponse to low temperature ...

InVigna radiata, touch stimulus differentially affects the expression of CaM isoforms, suggesting the specificity of the signal ...

Ca^2 . Further continuation of this work in maize suspension cultures led the authors to suggest that a mi- tochondrial Ca^2 s ...

idence for the elevation of Ca^2 levels in epidermal cells of cowpea plant infected with cowpea rust fungus,Uromyces vignae. Th ...

A. Protein Kinases and Phosphatases Signals either directly or through messengers such as Ca^2 regulate the activity of protein ...

kinase II (CaM K II) catalytic domain. The region that joins the kinase domain to the CaM-like region corresponds to the autoinh ...

There is some evidence that Ca^2 -regulated protein phosphorylation is involved in cold stress and in host-pathogen interaction ...

four helix-loop-helix motifs (also known as EF hand domains) that bind to four Ca^2 ions with high affin- ity (Figure 2). Plant ...

binding of Ca^2 to CaM (10^5 to 10^6 M) results in a conformational change in such a way that the hy- drophobic pockets of Ca ...

divergent and showed differences in 32 amino acids with the conserved group [219]. Surprisingly, these divergent CaM isoforms ar ...

In plants, GABA is involved in normal plant growth and development. The detailed molecular anal- ysis of GAD using the transgeni ...

tubule motor protein, KCBP, containing a CaM-binding domain at its C-terminus and other unique do- mains in the N-terminus has b ...

has been identified in Arabidopsis[119]. It contains three EF hand motifs (Figure 2) and the bacterially expressed protein showe ...

cific genes by Ca^2 is due to regulation of phosphorylation of transacting factors by Ca^2 /CaM-depen- dent protein kinase II ...

EGTA [195]. Furthermore, a CaM inhibitor (W7) but not its inactive analogue (W5) inhibited the devel- opment of cold acclimation ...

The oxidative burst in plants as a result of compatible plant-pathogen interaction leads to a hyper- sensitive response and cell ...

The genes that are involved in the cold acclimatization process are called COR(cold responsive) genes and encode hydrophilic pol ...

abnormalities in cellular activities including inhibition of photosynthesis, reduction in protein synthesis and potassium conten ...