Title page -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Photo of All the Participants -- Contents -- Instrumentation and Ecological Aspects -- Monitoring the Effects of UV Radiation in Cells and Plants -- Photobiological Measurements and Obtaining Action Spectra -- Ultraviolet Spectroradiometry for Environmental Biology -- Ambient Levels of UV Radiation -- DSCOVR, the First Deep Space Earth and Solar Observatory -- Retrieval of the Transmitted UV Irradiance from Reflected Data -- Solar UV as Environmental Factor: Measurements and Model -- Reconstruction of the UV-Time Series Weighted for the Plant Action Spectrum Based on the UV and Total Ozone Data Collected at Belsk, Poland, in the Period 1992-2003 -- Detector of the Ultraviolet Radiation for Biologically Active Ranges of Solar Radiation on the Bases of ZnSe Semiconductor -- UV and VIS Radiation Meters for Environmental Monitoring -- Effects of UV Radiation -- Maintenance of the Plant Genome under Natural Light -- UV-Induced DS(SS)-DNA Damage: Optical and Electrical Recognition -- Caspase-Like Activities and Programmed Cell Death Induced by UV in Arabidopsis -- Plant Phenolic Metabolites as Antioxidants and Mutagenesis Inhibitors -- New Approach to a Radiation Amplification Factor -- Effects of the Radiation on Some Aquatic Primary Producers -- Nitric Oxide and Plant Stress -- Signals from Reactive Oxygen Species -- Nitric Oxide Functions in the Plant Hypersensitive Disease Resistance Response -- Nitric Oxide in Cell Damage and Protection -- NO Signaling Functions in the Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses -- Effect of Nitric Oxide on Concentration of Cytosolic Free Ca2+ in Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana Plants Under Oxidative Stress -- Nitric Oxide, Peroxidases and Programmed Cell Death in Plants -- Plant Hemoglobins and Nitric Oxide in Acclimation to Hypoxic Stress.

Nitric Oxide in Plants: The Cell Fate Regulator -- Nitric Oxide, Cell Death and Increased Taxol Recovery -- Glutathione-Dependent Formaldehyde Dehydrogenase/GSNO Reductase from Arabidopsis. Expression Pattern and Functional Implications in Phytoremediation and Pathogenesis -- Plant Stress and Programmed Cell Death -- Effect of Chlorsulfuron on Early Embryo Development in Norway Spruce Cell Suspensions -- Spruce Embryogenesis - A Model for Developmental Cell Death in Plants -- Cadmium-Induced Cell Death in Tomato Suspension Cells is Mediated by Caspase-Like Proteases, Oxidative Stress and Ethylene -- Exploitation of the Daylily Petal Senescence Model as a Source for Novel Proteins that Regulate Programmed Cell Death in Plants -- Changes in the Pattern of HMW-DNA Fragmentation Accompanying the Differentiation and Ageing of Plant Cells -- Maintenance of Stomata Function is Required for Containment of Hypersensitive Response -- High-Scale Analysis of Pathogenicity Determinants of Potato mop-top virus -- Nitrotyrosination of alpha-Tubulin: Structural Analysis of Functional Significance in Plants and Animals -- Subject Index -- Author Index.