Abstracts

Historical Perspectives and General Topics
Molecules
Cell Biology and Plant Physiology
Electrophysiology
Plant-to-Plant Communication and Ecophysiology
Poster Presentations

Historical Perspectives and General Topics

František Baluška^1,*, Stefano Mancuso², Dieter Volkmann¹, and Peter W. Barlow³:
Neurobiological View of Plants and Their Body Plan
Peter Barlow:
Charles Darwin and the plant root brain: Closing the gap in plant living systems theory
Eric Davies^* and Bratislav Stankovic:
Electrical signals, the cytoskeleton, and gene expression: current hypotheses on the coherence of the cellular responses to environmental insult
Marta Michniewicz, Jozef Mravec, Tomasz Paciorek, Kamil Ruzicka, Michael Sauer, Anne Vieten, Justyna Wisniewska and Jiri Friml^*:
Auxin distribution network as a means to integrate and process signals in plant development
Markus Geisler^1,*, Joshua J. Blakeslee², Rodolphe Bouchard¹, Anindita Bandyopadhyay², Wendy Ann Peer², Robert Dudler¹, Angus S. Murphy^2*, and Enrico Martinoia¹:
Active export of auxin by MDR-type ATP-binding cassette transporters
Keith A. Mott:
Information Processing by Stomatal Networks
Peter M Neumann:
The role of root apices in shoot growth regulation
Ariel Novoplansky:
Competitive self/nonself discrimination in plants
Tsvi Sachs:
How can plants choose the most promising organs?
Fedora Sutton:
Guard cell and mesophyll ABA signaling: An analogous pre-synaptic,post-synaptic system in plant leaves?
Michel Thellier^*, Marie-Claire Verdus, Vic Norris and Camille Ripoll:
Memory effects in the response of plants to environmental signals
Tony Trewavas:
The green plant as an intelligent organism
Günther Witzany:
Serial Endosymbiotic Theory (SET): The biosemiotic update 2005

Molecules

Oliver Meyerhoff¹, Katharina Müller¹, M. Rob G. Roelfsema¹, Andreas Latz¹, Benoit Lacombe², Rainer Hedrich¹, Petra Dietrich³ and Dirk Becker^1,*:
Keeping in touch with plant glutamate receptors
Bert de Boer^*, Peter Schoonheim and Oleg Klychnikov:
14-3-3 brain proteins in plants: master regulators that couple signaling to ion transport
Janet Braam:
Touch-Responsive Gene Expression
Eric D. Brenner^1,*, Dennis Stevenson¹, Joanna Chiu², Suzan Runko¹, Nora Barboza³, and Gloria Coruzzi³:
Pharmacological approaches to understand plant glutamate receptors
Molly Craxton:
Synaptotagmin genes in plants and other eukaryotes
Bazbek Davletov:
Synaptotagmins and cell-to-cell communication at neuronal synapse
Massimo Delledonne^*, Alberto Ferrarini, Matteo De Stefano:
Nitric oxide functions in plant disease resistance
Petra Dietrich:
Ca²⁺-permeable channels in the plant pathogen response
Gian-Pietro Di Sansebastiano^*, Massimiliano Gigante, Maria Rosaria Leucci, Stefania De Domenico, Gabriella Piro, Giuseppe Dalessandro:
Syntaxin 1 as the central element of regulated exocytosis in plants
Matthew Gilliham^1,*, Lai-hua Liu¹, Pauline Essah¹, Romola Davenport¹, Mark Tester² and Julia Davies¹:
Functional characterisation of Arabidopsis glutamate-like receptors
Lorenzo Lamattina^*, Luciana Lanteri, Natalia Correa-Aragunde, Magdalena Graziano:
Nitric oxide and auxin interactions in root formation
Susan J. Murch:
The brain of plants: neurotransmitters, neuroregulators and neurotoxins
Jozef Šamaj:
MAP kinases in neurons and plants
Jack C. Schultz^1,*, Heidi M. Appel¹, Ramesh Raina²:
Receptor-like kinases: how plants sense their environment and can tell us what they "see"
Tomohiro Uemura:
SNARE molecules indicate the complexity of the post-Golgi traffic in plant cells
Viktor Žársky:
Rab GTPases and Exocyst in Plants

Cell Biology and Plant Physiology

Tobias Baskin:
A Phytosynapse? The plant’s use of glutamate receptors to respond to aluminium
Enrico Scarpella¹,Wenzislava Ckurshumova, Naden Krogan, Danielle Marcos, Philip Francis, Thomas Berleth^*:
Polar signals in plant vascular tissue development
Elison B. Blancaflor^1,* and Kent D. Chapman²:
N-Acylethanolamines: Emerging Lipid Mediators of Seedling Development
Gladys Cassab:
Hydrotropism: root growth responses to water
Vadim Demidchik^1,*, Sergey N. Shabala², Chris Nichols¹, Adeeba Dark¹ and Julia M. Davies¹:
Is ATP a signalling agent in plants?
Erwan Le Deunff^1,*, Nicolas Beuve¹, Nicolas Rispail², Cliquet J-B¹, Philippe Lainé¹ and Alain Ourry¹:
Does GABA act as a long-distance signal in the regulation of nitrate uptake in plants?
Noni Franklin-Tong :
Signals and targets triggered by self-incompatibility: recognition of "self" can be deadly!
Thorsten Hamann and Chris Somerville:
Cell wall integrity signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana
Jamie Ashby^1,2, Vitaly Boyko^1,2, Emmanuel Boutant³, Anna Groner², Monika Fasler^1,2, Mark Seemanpillai³, Christophe Ritzenthaler³, and Manfred Heinlein^1,2,3,*:
TMV as a model for the analysis of RNA transport via plasmodesmata
Ayelet Yellin, Aaron Fait, and Hillel Fromm^*:
Genetic and pharmacological evidence for a role of the GABA shunt in maintaining the levels of reactive oxygen intermediates in plant cells
Benoît Lacombe:
Ion channels in plants: from DNA sequence to integrative biology
Frank Ludewig:
Arabidopsis knock out mutants of GABA metabolism and their response to different growth conditions
Stefano Mancuso^1,*, Sergio Mugnai¹, Anna Maria Marras², Dieter Volkmann³, František Baluška³:
Oxygen/Auxin influx and NO efflux: neural-like features of the transtion zone of the root apex
Thorsten Nürnberger^*, Frederic Brunner, Stefan Engelhardt, Yvonne Gäbler, Birgit Kemmerling:
Signal perception and transduction in plant innate immunity
Yu Sun, Iris Steinebrunner, Charlotte Song, Jian Wu, Timothy Butterfield, Xuanzhi Wang, Elizabeth Henaff, and Stanley Roux^*:
Signaling role of extracellular ATP in growth control and in wound responses
Enrico Scarpella^1,2,3,*, Danielle Marcos¹, Philip Francis¹, Annemarie H. Meijer² and Thomas Berleth¹:
Leaf vascular patterning in monocots and dicots
Frank Turano^*, Jiman Kang and Sivasubramani Balasubramanian:
Glutamate receptors and GABA in plant responses to environmental stress
P. Walch-Liu^*, T. Remans and B. G. Forde:
Glutamate signalling and root development in Arabidopsis

Electrophysiology

Silke Lautner, Thorsten E.E. Grams, Rainer Matyssek and Jörg Fromm^*:
Heat-induced electrical signals change photosynthesis in poplar
Ivana Macháčková^1,*, Jan Krekule¹, Maria Filek², Jolanta Biesaga-Koscielniak², Izabela Marcinska²:
Developmental effects of electric current in thermo- and photoperiodic plants
Sergey Shabala:
Oscillations in plants
Rainer Stahlberg:
Slow wave potentials – higher plants’ very own propagating electrical signals
Kazimierz Trebacz:
Action potentials - from mechanism to function
Aart J.E. van Bel^*, Jens B. Hafke and Torsten Will:
Forisomes as sensors and aphids as reporters of Ca²⁺-influx/efflux during depolarization waves along sieve tubes
Alain Vian:
Effects of high frequency electromagnetic stimulation on plants
Alexander G. Volkov:
Electrophysiology and Phototropism
Edgar Wagner^*, Lars Lehner, Johannes Normann, Justyna Veit, Jolana Albrechtova:
Hydro-electrochemical integration of the higher plant - basis for electrogenic flower initiation
Jeremy Rhodes, John Thain and David Wildon^*:
Signals and signalling pathways in plant wound responses

Plant-to-Plant Communication and Ecophysiology

Ragan M. Callaway^1,* and Jorge M. Vivanco²:
The transmogrification of plant invaders: biogeographic differences in allelopathic effects and native evolutionary responses
Jürgen Engelberth^*, Irmgard Seidl-Adams, Jack C. Shultz, James H. Tumlinson:
Interplant communication: From induced volatiles to signal transduction pathways
Manuela Giovannetti:
Self/nonself recognition in mycorrhizal networks
Velemir Ninkovic^*, R. Glinwood, & J. Pettersson:
Communication between undamaged plants by volatiles: the role of allelobiosis
Laura G. Perry^*, Mark W. Paschke, and Jorge M. Vivanco:
Root Exudation and Rhizosphere Biology: Allelochemicals and Cell Death
Thijs L. Pons^*, Ronald Pierik, Niels P.R. Anten and Rens (L.) A.C.J. Voesenek:
Shade avoidance without photoreceptors

Poster Presentations

Jolana Albrechtova^*, Edgar Wagner:
Hydraulic signals and plant development
Charzewska A, Zawadzki T, Krupa M, Stolarz M:
The free-running rhythm of circumnutation activity in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
K.N. Demchenko^1,*, N.P. Demchenko¹1, K. Pawlowski²:
Myosin VIII, actin and tubulin in the development of symbiotic contacts by actinorhizal and rhizobial root nodules
Weronika Krzeszowiec and Halina Gabrys:
What do myosins do in blue light?
Vladimíra Hlaváčková^1,*, Pavel Krchňák¹, Petr Ilík¹, Jan Nauš¹, Ondřej Novák², Radek Kaňa¹, Martina Špundo:
The first moving signal inducing systemic changes in photosynthesis after local burning of tobacco plants
Maja Kovač¹, Darja Milovanovič Jarh¹, Axel Műller², Anita Purnat¹, Špela Baebler¹, Hana Krečič¹, Mojca Milavec¹, Maruša Pompe-Novak¹, Kristina Gruden¹, and Maja Ravnikar¹:
Jasmonic acid, salicylic acid and gene expression in early response of potato plants to virus infection
Elzbieta Krol^1,*, Halina Dziubinska¹, Kazimierz Trębacz¹, Maria Stolarz¹, Maria Filek²:
Different responses to cold recorded in spring - and winter - varieties of rape (Brassica napus L. var. oleifera)
Susanna M. Messinger¹, Keith Mott¹, David Peak²:
Noise Enhanced Distributed Emergent Computation in Plants
Pilar Gil Montenegro:
Root–to–leaf electrical signaling in Avocado (Persea americana Mill.)
Miroslav Ovecka^1,2,*, Irene Lichtscheidl¹, František Baluška^2,3:
Plant synapses in plant root apex are enriched with lipid rafts
Wasser K, Müller J, Preuss ML, Holstein S, Böhm N, Nielsen E, Hirt H, Menzel D, Šamaj J:
Signalling endosomes in plants: activated MAPKs associate with CCVs and endosomes
Jens Müller, Nils Böhm, Heribert Hirt, Diedrik Menzel and Jozef Šamaj:
Dynamic behaviour of SIMKK, a plant stress-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase and its downstream target SIMK
Markus Schlicht¹, Boris Voigt¹, Alina Schick¹ Miroslav Strnad², Klaus Palme³, Dieter Volkmann¹, Diedrik Menzel¹, František Baluška^1,*:
End-Poles of Root Cells as Auxin Transporting Plant Synapses
Maria Stolarz^*, Halina Dziubińska, Elżbieta Król, Maciej Krupa, Agnieszka Charzewska, Tadeusz Zawadzki, Kazimierz Trębacz:
Light-induced changes in stem growth and circumnutations in Helianthus annuus L.
Viktor E.Tsyganov^1,*, Alexander I. Zhernakov¹, Anna V. Khodorenko¹, Zlata B. Pavlova¹, Pavel Y. Kisutin¹, Andrei A. Belimov¹, Vera I. Safronova¹, Tatyana S. Naumkina², Alexey Y. Borisov¹, Peter Lindblad², Karl-Josef Dietz³, Igor A. Tikhonovich¹:
Genetic approach to study pea (Pisum sativum L.) adaptations to mechanical and cadmium stresses during development its symbioses with Rhizobium and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Tomohiro Uemura¹, Takashi Ueda³, Akihiko Nakano^3,4 and Masa H. Sato²:
Plant SNARE molecules involved in endocytosis and exocytosis
Tamás Visnovitz^1,*, Ildikó Világi², and Zoltán Kristóf¹:
Mechanoreceptor cells on the tercier pulvinus of Mimosa pudica L.
Boris Voigt^1,*, Molly Craxton², Bazbek Davletov², Patrick J. Hussey³, Diedrik Menzel¹, František Baluška¹:
Expression and localization of Arabidopsis synaptotagmins
Ying-Lang Wan¹, Halina Gabrys², František Baluška¹, Diedrik Menzel:^1,*:
Blue Light-Regulated Vesicular Recycling of Phototropin1 in the Root Transition Zone
Jevin West¹, Keith Mott¹, David Peak²:
Why decentralized computation in plants?

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