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Phytochemicals, Plant Growth, and the Environment (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Phytochemicals, Plant Growth, and the Environment (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Series: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, 42
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This is the second volume since the reintroduction of the Recent
Advances in Phytochemistry (RAP) series, an annual journal
supported by the Phytochemical Society of North America. Topics
appropriate for RAP include the biosynthesis of natural products
and regulation of metabolism, the ecology of specialized
metabolites and the evolution of their pathways, and the effects of
natural products or plants on human health. Research appropriate
for RAP involves genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, natural
product structural determination and new technology development,
medicinal chemistry and metabolic engineering, or any of the myriad
of fields that are now closely associated with what may be called
"traditional phytochemistry" and plant biochemistry. The advent of
post-genomics-based ways of thinking, of systems biology, of
synthetic biology, of comparative genomics/ proteomics/
transcriptomics/ metabolomics and especially of the introduction
and establishment of a mentality that leads to support of large
collaborative projects, has opened up many new doors to scientists
interested and versed in the (bio)chemistry of plants. The goal of
RAP is to highlight these developments. Two main types of articles
are printed in RAP: Perspectives and Communications. Perspectives
in RAP are expected to synthesize results from the primary
literature and perhaps from new/novel results and place these in
perspective relative to the broader field. These articles may be
similar to review articles, but also are intended to present
important ideas and hypotheses, and may present proposals for
interesting directions in the field. It is the hope of the
Editorial Board that these articles will be of great value to a
large audience. Communications are intended to represent new
advances in the field that will be of interest to a large audience.
Articles of both types are typically solicited from the Society
membership based on the content of the annual meeting talks, but in
keeping with the title "Recent Advances in Phytochemistry" the
editorial board reserves the right to solicit additional
Perspectives and/or Communications from non-attendees as well
(e.g., where an editorial board member has knowledge of an
interesting recent advancement that would be of general interest to
the society membership). All submissions to RAP go through a
rigorous peer review process, overseen by the Editorial Board,
which includes external review. RAP is indexed with Springer
published journals. All RAP papers are available not only in the
published volume form, but also electronically through Springer's
online literature services. This marks a significant change from
past volumes of RAP and it is the hope of the Editorial Board that
this will lead to broader dissemination of the contents of and
greater interest in RAP. This 42nd volume of RAP includes a total
of seven articles, many, but not all, based on talks presented at
the 50th annual meeting of the PSNA. As was seen in RAP volume 41,
These seven Perspectives give a very good picture of the breadth of
plant (bio)chemistry research in North America, which is also
indicative of the state of the field worldwide. Each of these
articles describes the integration of several different approaches
to ask and then answer interesting questions regarding the function
of interesting plant metabolites, either in the plant itself or in
interactions with the environment (natural setting or human health
application). Many of these Perspectives have a strong ecological
focus. McCormick et al. review the discovery of the biosynthetic
pathway leading to production of trichothecene mycotoxins such as
the T-2 toxin in plant pathogenic and other fungi. These compounds
play very important roles in plant-pathogen interaction, and are
very significant from a human health perspective. In a
complementary paper, Duringer et al. describe recent technological
advances in monitoring mycotoxins such as ergovaline and lysergic
acid in forage crops, using state of the art and highly sensitive
mass spectrometric means. Gross reviews the current understanding
of how infochemicals mediate interactions between plants and
insects, and highlights how such knowledge can be used to mitigate
crop losses by pests. Two Perspectives discuss how recent
technological advances are making an impact on our understanding of
the role of plant hormones in plant growth and development. Gouthu
et al. outline highly sensitive methods for measurement of plant
hormones in tissues such as developing grape berry. In contrast,
McDowell and Gang outline how new transcriptional profiling
techniques are shedding light on old questions, such as how rhizome
development is regulated by different plant growth regulators. The
last two Perspectives outline the role of biotechnology in modern
plant biochemistry research. Makhzoum et al. review the long
history of use of hairy roots and provide perspective on future
utility of this tissue type in continuing to uncover mechanisms of
plant natural product biosynthesis, among other apolications.
Dalton et al. outline, on the other hand, recent efforts to produce
non-native polymers of human interest in plants and outline many of
the challenges associated with such investigations. We hope that
you will find these Perspectives to be interesting, informative,
and timely. It is our goal that RAP will act not only as the voice
of the PSNA, but that it will serve as an authoritative, up-to-date
resource that helps to set the gold standard for thought and
research in fields related to plant biochemistry.
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