CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Biological Patterning: From Awareness to Understanding -- Recommended Previous Books and the Outline of this Book -- An Overview of Biological Patterning -- Solved and Unsolved Major Issues of Plant Patterning -- Patterning in Angiosperms versus Patterning in Animals -- Part A Basic Issues Relevant to Plant Patterning -- Chapter 2 Plant Hormones -- Ethylene -- Synthesis of ethylene and its elimination -- Ethylene signal transduction -- Interaction of ethylene with other plant hormones -- Auxin -- Historical background with a personal note -- The ubiquitin-proteasome system for the selective degradation of proteins -- Auxin synthesis -- Auxin transport -- Auxin signaling -- Interaction with other hormones -- Cytokinins -- Historical background -- An overview on cytokinin's effects -- Summary of cytokinin biosynthesis, degradation and bioconversions -- Perception and signal transduction of cytokinins -- Gibberellins -- Some effects of gibberellins on plants -- Biosynthesis -- The signaling pathway -- An overview of gibberellins in plant morphogenesis -- Brassinosteroids -- Effects of applied BR on growth, differentiation and on the metabolism of plants -- Occurrence and biosynthesis of BRs -- Brassinosteroid perception and signaling -- Interactions between BRs and other plant hormones -- Jasmonic Acid, Salicylic Acid, Polyamines, and Abscisic Acid -- Peptide Hormones -- Systemines -- Phytosulfokine (PSK) -- CLAVATA (CLV) -- Chapter 3 The Cytoskeleton of Plant Cells -- Intermediate Filaments -- Actin and Microfilaments -- Characteristics of microfilaments -- Accessory proteins of microfilaments -- Involvement of actin microfilaments in cell function and patterning -- Tubulins and Microtubules -- Characteristics of microtubules -- The accessory proteins of microtubules.

The main functions of kinesins and dyneins -- The Cytoskeleton in Cell Division -- The mitotic spindles -- The cytoskeleton during cell division -- The roles of the cytoskeleton in plant cell morphogenesis and other cell activities -- Chapter 4 Phylogeny, Taxonomy and Gene Duplication -- Phylogeny and Taxonomy are Relevant to Plant Patterning -- Phylogeny of Angiosperm - General Remarks -- Gene and Genome Duplication -- Processes Leading to Gene and Genome Duplication -- Chapter 5 Regulation of Gene Expression -- Chromatin -- DNA -- Pre-Messenger RNA -- Messenger RNA -- Protein -- Synthesis of polypeptides -- Trimming and folding -- Protein degradation -- Chapter 6 Systems Biology -- The Evolution of Systems Biology -- An Early Example of the Systems Biology Approach -- An Overview of the Systems Biology Approach -- Important Aspects of Systems Biology -- Data Representation and Communication Standards -- Part B The Patterning of Plant Components -- Chapter 7 Patterning of the Angiosperm Embryo -- The Transition from the Gametophytic to the Sporophytic Phase -- From the Zygote to the Mature Embryo -- The Ups and Downs of the Differentiating Embryo -- Radial Differentiation in the Embryo -- Asymmetric Cell Division and Ramification of Developmental Fates -- Remarks on Phenomena that are Related to Embryogenesis -- Double fertilization and the differentiation of the endosperm -- Xenia and metaxenia -- Chapter 8 The Shoot Apical Meristem -- Background -- Early Studies of the SAM -- Maintenance of the Stem Cell Niche by the CLAVATA/WUSCHEL Loop -- Advanced Studies and the Use of in vivo Manipulations -- Microsurgical and laser ablation of tomato SAMs -- The combination of advanced optical methods with interference in cell division and DNA replication can be used for the study of differentiation of shoot apices.

Real-time lineage analysis of cell division in living shoot apices of Arabidopsis reveals details of SAM patterning -- Programmed silencing of CLV3 gene led to answer questions regarding the control of the CZ size in the SAM -- Initiation of Leaves, Phyllotaxis and Plant Hormones -- Auxins and lateral organ initiation -- Cytokinins, gibberellins and lateral organ initiation -- Chromatin and the Function of SAM -- Chapter 9 Patterning of Roots -- The Root of Young Arabidopsis Seedlings: The Meristem and the Differentiation of Projected Cell Files -- Root Development in Cereals -- Initiation and Morphogenesis of Root Hairs in Arabidopsis -- Early Genetic Studies on Root Hair Differentiation -- Lateral and Adventitious Roots -- Lateral roots in Arabidopsis: structure, genes and hormones -- The impact of nutrients and environmental conditions on the formation of lateral roots and root hairs -- Adventitious roots in Arabidopsis -- Vascular differentiation in young Arabidopsis roots -- Trafficking of macromolecules between root cells -- An Update on Auxins and Root Patterning -- The Identification of Genes Involved in Root Patterning -- Chapter 10 The Vegetative Shoot and Transition to Flowering -- Structural Aspects of the Angiosperm Shoot -- Shoots of dicot plants -- Shoot of monocot plants -- The Molecular Genetics of Branching -- Information from dicots -- Information from monocots -- The Transition from Vegetative to Reproductive Growth -- Transition to flowering in dicots -- Photoperiodism and the transition to flowering -- Photoperiodism and florigen - lore and reality -- The transition to flowering in Poaceae species and in other monocots -- Plant hormones and the transition to the flowering phase -- Chapter 11 The Angiosperm Leaf -- Leaf Development - An Overview of Early Studies -- Focus on Knotted1-Like Homeobox Genes.

Ancient Lateral Outgrowth and the Dorsoventrality of Leaves -- Vein Differentiation in Leaves -- Remarks on the patterning of monocot leaves -- Trichome Development -- Stomatal Patterning -- Chapter 12 Patterning of Flowers and their Members -- A Note on the Versatility of Flowers -- A Short History of Studies on Flower Morphogenesis -- Looking Back at the Molecular Genetics of the Transition from Vegetative Growth to Floral Induction -- Focusing on Model Plants for the Understanding of Floral Patterning -- The emergence of the ABC model of floral organ identity genes -- The "Golden Decade" of floral development -- Recent findings and the updated ABC model -- Floral Organ Identity Genes in Dicots Other than Arabidopsis and Snapdragon -- Flower Patterning in Monocots -- Flower patterning in Liliaceae -- Flower patterning in Orchidaceae -- Flower patterning in the Poaceae -- Targets of MADS-Box Genes -- Flower Patterning and Sex Expression -- Duplication in Genes Controlling Flower Patterning -- RNA Silencing and Flower Patterning -- Epilogue -- References -- Corpus Acknowledgments -- Index.