Sulfur Metabolism in Plants: Mechanisms and Applications to Food Security and Responses to Climate Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Foreword: Exploring Interactions Between Sulfate and Nitrate Uptake at a Whole Plant Level....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Sulfate Uptake and Assimilation – Whole Plant Regulation....Pages 11-24
Molecular and Cellular Regulation of Sulfate Transport and Assimilation....Pages 25-33
Manipulating the Sulfur Composition of Seeds....Pages 35-45
Regulation of Expression of Sulfate Transporters and APS Reductase in Leaf Tissue of Chinese Cabbage (Brassica pekinensis) ....Pages 47-52
Response of Amino Acid Metabolism to Sulfur Starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803....Pages 53-59
Regulation of the Uptake of Sulfate by Chinese Cabbage (Brassica pekinensis) at Various Sulfate Concentrations in the Root Environment....Pages 61-65
Characterization of Adenosine 5′-Phospho-Sulfate Kinase ( APSK ) Genes from Higher Plants....Pages 67-70
Subcellular Compartmentation of Cysteine Synthesis in Plants – One Step More....Pages 71-75
Preliminary Characteristics of a Tobacco Gene Down-Regulated by Sulfur Deprivation and Encoding a Cys-Rich Protein....Pages 77-83
Sulfate Uptake, Cysteine and GSH Contents Are Increased by 5-Aminolevulinic Acid in Arabidopsis thaliana ....Pages 85-89
Partitioning of Sulfur Between Primary and Secondary Metabolism....Pages 91-96
Interaction Between Atmospheric and Pedospheric Sulfur Nutrition in Eucalyptus camaldulensis ....Pages 97-101
Comparative Analysis of Amino Acids from Arabidopsis Wild-Type and Mutant sir1-1 Leaves by Reverse-Phase High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)....Pages 103-107
Homomeric Interaction of the STAS Domain in Sultr1;2....Pages 109-114
Simultaneous Determination of Sulfur Metabolites in Plant Tissue by LC-ESI-MS/MS....Pages 115-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Plant Response to Mineral Ion Availability: Transcriptome Responses to Sulfate, Selenium and Iron....Pages 123-134
Regulation of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Formation in Plastids....Pages 135-144
Plant Accumulation of Sulfur’s Sister Element Selenium – Potential Applications and Ecological Implications....Pages 145-153
Identification and Sequence Analysis of Sulfate/Selenate Transporters in Selenium Hyper- and Non-accumulating Astragalus Plant Species....Pages 155-162
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Expression of Ferritins ZmFer1 and ZmFer2 Genes in Shoots and Roots of S-Deprived Young Maize Plants....Pages 163-168
Molybdate Affects Sulfate Acquisition in Brassica juncea Plants....Pages 169-173
Impact of Enhanced Copper Levels and Sulfate Deprivation on the Uptake and Metabolism of Sulfate in Chinese Cabbage ( Brassica pekinensis )....Pages 175-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Sulfur Nutrition and Food Security....Pages 185-202
Sulfur Compounds in Multiple Compensation Reactions of Abiotic Stress Responses....Pages 203-215
Cysteine Synthesis in the Chloroplast Is Not Required for Resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana to H 2 S Fumigation....Pages 217-221
Is the Eliciting Effect of Stress Metabolites on Pathogenesis in Winter Wheat Linked to the Sulfur Supply?....Pages 223-229
Elevated Atmospheric CO 2 Affects Grain Sulfur Concentration and Grain Nitrogen/Sulfur Ratio of Wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.)....Pages 231-236
Sulfate and Nitrate Assimilation in Leaves of Quercus ilex and Quercus pubescens Grown Near Natural CO 2 Springs in Central Italy....Pages 237-248
Gamma-Glutamyl Cycle in Plants: Possible Implications in Apoplastic Redox Control and Redox Sensing....Pages 249-254
Sulfate Transport Processes Under Drought Stress: Interaction with Mycorrhization and Elevated p CO 2 in Young Pedunculate Oak ( Quercus robur L.) Trees....Pages 255-264
The Role of Cyclophilin CYP20-3 in Activation of Chloroplast Serine Acetyltransferase Under High Light Stress....Pages 265-269
Impact of Lead and Sulfur Deprivation on Soybean Plants....Pages 271-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-284