Progress in Botanical Research: Proceedings of the 1st Balkan Botanical Congress: Proceedings of the 1st Balkan Botanical Congress

by Ioannes Tsekos, Michael Moustakas, Ioannes Tsekos (Editor), Michael Moustakas (Editor)

Overview

This volume contains selected papers presented at the First Balkan Botanical Congress. The articles refer to all groups of plants and to all scientific disciplines in plant sciences and cover several major themes of current interest to botanists:

• taxonomy, geobotany and evolution: flora, vegetation, geographical distribution, pollen morphology and deposition, biodiversity, conservation, phytosociology
• biochemistry, metabolism and bioenergetics: secondary metabolites, enzymes, membrane transport, virus infection
• ecology and ecophysiology: metal accumulation and tolerance, toxicity and pollution, bio-monitoring systems, dynamics of vegetation communities, leaf structure and ecological types, UV-B and ozone radiation, pesticides and herbicides, ecological evaluation, management and protection of ecosystems, adaptation, photosynthesis
• structure and its dynamics: organization and molecular characterization of biomembranes and different cell structures and organelles, ultrastructure, anatomy, biosynthesis and localization of different cell compounds
• genetics, plant breeding and biotechnology: gene transfer, genetic engineering, genetic sterility and diversity, biodiversity and conservation, in vitro regeneration, micropropagation, genotype-environment interaction
• growth, development and differentiation: differentiation of cell structures, reproductive biology, photoreceptors, crop simulation model, regulators and plant morphogenesis, plant growth patterns, somatic-embryogenesis and organogenesis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792353058
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	10/28/1998
Series:	Proceedings of the 1st Balkan Botanical Congress
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	6.48(w) x 9.68(h) x 1.26(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface
	Taxonomy, Geobotany and Evolution
1.	Patterns of evolution and the effects of toxic metals	3
2.	The early botanical exploration of Greece	9
3.	A taxonomic survey on lichens of Foca (Fukia)	21
4.	Marinopalynological evidence for the late quaternary vegetation and climatic changes along the Bulgarian black sea coast	25
5.	Phenological patterns of oro-mediterranean vegetation in the White mountains (Western Crete)	29
6.	Lathyrus binatus Panc. in Serbia A species of global importance in biodiversity conservation	33
7.	Contribution to the study of vegetation of mount Vermion (NC Greece)	37
8.	Phytogeographical analysis of the flora of mount Vermion (NC Greece)	41
9.	Evaluation system of the relative importance of vegetation syntaxa for nature conservation in Greece	45
10.	Intraspecific variation of Amygdalus orientalis Miller (Rosaceae) in Turkey	49
11.	Flora, vegetation and ecological management of Kalamas river delta	53
12.	Geographical distribution of Arabis procurrens Waldst. & Kit, Lilium rhodopaeum Delip. and Lathraea rhodopea Dingler in Greece	57
13.	Monitoring of modern pollen deposition by means of pollen traps in the Pieria mountains, Greece: Preliminary results	61
14.	The sage plants in Greece: morphological variation and its taxonomic implications	65
15.	"Flora" a database and software for floristic and vegetation analyzes	69
16.	Origanum vulgare L. in the Balkan peninsula and Anatolia: distribution and morphological variation	73
17.	Flora mechanisms and breeding systems of Gentiana species presented in Bulgarian flora	77
18.	The vascular flora of the walls of Thessaloniki (N. Greece)	81
19.	Micromorphology, anatomy and myxocarpy of nutlets of selected Micromeria species (Lamiaceae)	85
20.	Distribution of Dactylis glomerata subsp. slovenica (Dom.) Dom. (Poaceae) in Europe	89
21.	Biosystematic investigation of genus Achillea L., sect. Filipendulinae (DC.) Afan. (Asteraceae) in Bulgaria	93
22.	Plant communities with endemic species Pancicia serbica Vis. (Apiaceae, Araliales) in Yugoslavia	97
23.	Aquatic plants of sultan marshes wetland	101
24.	Pollen morphology and its contribution to the taxonomy of some native greek Aegilops species. I. Diploid and polyploid species of the wider group of genomes C, U	105
25.	Pollen morphology and its contribution to the taxonomy of some native greek Aegilops species. II. Diploid and polyploid species of the wider group of genomes U, M, N	109
26.	The floristic diversity of the Greek flora as exemplified by the exploration of some East Aegean islets	113
27.	Phytosociological research of the above the timberline grasslands of mount Pangeon (NE Greece)	117
28.	Growth characteristics and distribution pattern of C[subscript 4] grasses Dichanthium ischaemum and Chrysopogon gryllus in N. Greece	121
29.	Important plant areas of the natura 2000 network of Greece	125
30.	Bryophytes and their environmental conditions at Enipeas (Mt. Olympos) and Lykorrema (Mt. Ossa) streams (Greece)	129
31.	The serpentine flora in the eastern Rhodopes mountains (Bulgaria)	133
32.	Morphological and pallinological researches on Corylus colurna L. (balkan hazelnut) spreading naturally in Turkey	137
33.	Committee for exploration of the flora and vegetation of Serbia - three decades of work	141
34.	An overview of the coastal vegetation of Greece based on multivariate analysis: dunes	149
35.	Two rare taxa in the southern Peloponnese	153
36.	Study on the vegetation and the dynamics of Euphorbia dendroides and Juniperus phoenicea plant communities in S. Greece (N. Korinthiakos Gulf)	157
37.	Contribution to the biodiversity (botanical diversity) and phytogeography of the island of Euboea	161
38.	General overview and chorological analysis of bryophytes in northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace)	165
39.	Preliminary results on the woody plants composition of cretan phryganic ecosystems	169
40.	The genus Paeonia in Greece: a subspecies and a cytogeographical distribution pattern new to the Greek area	173
41.	Contribution to the study of the Greek insular flora: Antikythera and the islets around Kythera	177
	Biochemistry, Metabolism and Bioenergenetics
42.	Chilling sensitivity and antioxidant metabolism in maize (Zea mays L.)	183
43.	Causes of decreased photosynthesis under water stress and the consequences	191
44.	Effect of Cu (II) on shoot regeneration in Triticum aestivum tissue cultures probed by the fast fluorescence (Jip-Test)	199
45.	Biotic activity of essential oil and the other Juniperus communis L. metabolites	207
46.	Limited proteolysis of barley rubisco and recognition of the fragments by monoclonal antibodies	211
47.	Membrane transport in Chara: Study of macroscopic currents and effect of Gd-DTPA	215
48.	Influence of 5-aminolevulinic acid on chlorophyll synthesis in black pine cotyledons	219
49.	Cytochemical investigation of tomato and cucumber pollen after cucumber mosaic virus infection	223
50.	External flavonoid aglycones in genus Tanacetum (Asteraceae)	227
51.	Chloroplast ATP synthase of wheat and its alloplasmic lines	231
52.	Isolation and spectroscopic characterization of cytochrome c6 from Cladophora glomerata	235
53.	The primary bioenergetics processes in optimal photosynthetic type of wheat plant	239
54.	A thermodynamic insight into the relationship: dark transpiration, respiration, and growth in plants	243
55.	Aluminium stress effects to nucleolytic activities of Triticum aestivum	247
56.	Electrophoretic patterns of diphosphonucleoside kinases, DNases and RNases in Triticum aestivum, Thinopyrum ponticum and their hybrids	251
	Ecology and Ecophysiology
57.	A dendroclimatological study on Abies cilicica Carr. in West Mediterranean region of Turkey	257
58.	Spatial organization of a grassland related to metalliferous soil variability	261
59.	Characterization of the photoinhibition of PSII in wheat seedlings by quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence	265
60.	Metabolic response of Nerium oleander to air pollution	269
61.	Cadmium tolerance and cadmium-binding polypeptides in Ailanthus altissima	273
62.	Root and shoot growth of common and durum wheat seedlings influenced by low pH and aluminum stress	277
63.	Ecophysiological characteristics of Staphylea pinnata L. and Sambucus nigra L. from the Belgrade Botanical Garden	281
64.	Ecophysiological properties of some forest trees	285
65.	Allelopathy of Erica carnea, a dominant species in the mixed pine forests at Maljen mountain (Serbia)	289
66.	The possibilities of using some exotic species in urban conditions of Belgrade	293
67.	Identification of Fe and Mn deficiencies by chlorophyll fluorescence technique	297
68.	Ecological evaluation and management of the ecosystems of Acheron river's estuaries and gorge (W. Greece)	301
69.	Photosynthetic responses of Gerbera to different substrates and heating systems	305
70.	Morphological characteristics of Chrysanthemum indicum, cultivated upon different rates of nitrogen fertilization	309
71.	Morphological characteristics of Chrysanthemum plants, one-; two-or three stem formatted	313
72.	Photosynthetic response of species that are included in a group of "vernal ephemerals"	317
73.	Degradation of plant cover and soils of Kyzylkym desert	321
74.	Development, structure and productivity of artificially established lime stands on beech site	325
75.	Preliminary study of metal concentration in Ulva rigida C. Agardh from Thermaikos Gulf, Greece	329
76.	Morpho-anatomical alterations in leaves of the genus Acer L. species in urban habitats	333
77.	Evaluation of aluminium tolerance in wheat	337
78.	Growth and physiological responses of tobacco and cotton exposed to AgNO[subscript 3] and AgI	341
79.	Seed quality and some physiological behaviours in presowing treatment of carrot seeds	345
80.	Effects of copper excess on Oregano (Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum (Link) Ietswaart). II. Physiological effects	349
81.	GAs levels and their relation to growth of Oregano plants (Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum (Link) Ietswaart) grown in copper rich soils	353
82.	Effects of intermittent cooling on growth of Lavandula stoechas	357
83.	Decomposition of Quercus farnetto Ten. and Quercus cerris L. leaf litter under natural forest conditions	361
84.	Photosynthesis of oak species under natural drought	365
85.	Effect of hilling on overwintering of seed sugar beet	369
86.	Effect of Cd and Pb on photosynthesis in cucumber	373
87.	Some physiological and biochemical changes in Solanum melongena L. genotypes grown under salt conditions	377
88.	Preliminary data on food preferences of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus Lamarck (Ehinoidea, Regularia)	381
89.	Preliminary results of field and culture studies of Porphyra att. ad. leucosticta Thuret in Le Jolis from the Gulf of Thessaloniki	385
	Structure and its Dynamics
90.	Towards a molecular map of the algal basal apparatus	391
91.	New developments in plant coated vesicle research	399
92.	The biosynthesis of cellulose in red algae	407
93.	The corm's structure at fern: Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth. Tend.	415
94.	Growth and structural responses of maize primary roots to aluminium stress	419
95.	Mitosis and cytokinesis in brown algae showing different thallus organization	423
96.	Betula pendula: response to ozone in leaf, stem, and root cells	427
97.	Effects of Pb and Cd on the ultrastructure of wheat roots	431
98.	Anatomy of adventitious root formation in stem cuttings of the easy-to-root- (Gemlik) and hard-to-root (Domat) olive cultivars	435
99.	Effects of Cu excess on Oregano (Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum (Link) Ietswaart). I. Morphological effects	439
100.	Morphological-anatomical characteristics of needles of fir Abies alba Mill. narrow fastigiate form	443
101.	Morphological characteristics and anatomic structure of three spontaneous mutants of spruce (Picea abies Karst) in Serbia	447
	Genetics, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
102.	Assessment of F[subscript 1] hybrids in different wheat and barley lines using RAPDs	453
103.	On the estimation of genome length in perennial woody angiosperms	457
104.	Transfer of HyHel10 scFv gene to plants	461
105.	Regeneration and transformation of Populus tremula with antisense pOMT8 from Stylosanthes humilis	465
106.	Regeneration of Picea omorika and Pinus heldreichii by tissue culture methods	469
107.	Chromosome damage induced by seed aging in Crepis capillaris L.	473
108.	Genotoxic effects of five pesticides in Crepis capillaris L. root meristem cells	477
109.	Tobacco plants expressing modified synthetic bacterial (Bacillus thuringiensis) CryIA(a) and CryIA(c) genes	481
110.	Comparative anatomical analysis of the vascular system in selected Helianthus annuus genotypes	485
111.	Chromosome numbers and karyotype analysis of Eranthis hyemalis (L.) Salisb.	489
112.	Individual variability of regularity, abundance and morphometric properties of serbian spruce (Picea omorika Panc. Purkyne) microstrobiles	493
113.	Antioxidant enzymes and chilling stress in tobacco	497
114.	Micropropagation of some vegetative rootstocks of sweet and sour cherry by meristem culture	501
115.	Determination of conditions for gene transfer into barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) by tissue electroporation and biolistic	505
116.	Micropropagation of Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum (Mt. Taygetos)	509
117.	In vitro propagation of Betula pendula 'dalecarlica'	513
118.	Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of peroxidase gene to tissue culture of Populus tremula	517
119.	Tailoring the onion crop for the 21st century: development of high quality fresh and processed onions	521
120.	Identification of genetic polymorphism of poplar (Populus sp.) by DNA marker technology	525
121.	In vitro cultures of leguminous species	529
122.	Propagation by cuttings of the species Ilex aquifolium L.	533
123.	Commercial micropropagation of Sideritis clandestina (Mt. Taygetos), Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum (Mt. Olympos), Melissa officinalis (Mt. Pindos), and Mentha longifolia (Mt. Pindos)	537
124.	Lignin pathway modifications by antisense o-methyltransferase and peroxidase gene construct in tobacco	541
125.	Multilocus study of six balkan natural populations of Pinus sylvestris (L.)	545
126.	Characterization of the mitochondrial genome of cytoplasmic male sterile hybrid between Lycopersicon peruvianum Mill. and Lycopersicon pennellii Corr.	549
127.	Genetic analysis on the T-DNA insertion mutants of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.)	553
128.	Isozyme polymorphism at the 6-phosphoglucose dehydrogenase (6PGD) and leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) loci in 18 populations of cedar species	557
129.	Identification of Pinus genotypes with RAPD markers	561
130.	Genetic determination and application of photosynthetic indexes as a real way in crop production improvement	565
131.	Genetic and phenotypic correlations for some sugar beet root characteristics	569
132.	Allozyme variation in nine (9) Balkan black pine (Pinus nigra Arnold) populations	573
133.	Variability of growth and productivity of hybrid plane progeny on meadow black soil in Serbia	577
134.	Application of induced androgenesis to obtain tomato plants resistant to Clavibacter michiganense subsp. michiganense	581
	Growth, Development and Differentiation
135.	Blue-light reception in plants and fungi	587
136.	Morphological-anatomical characteristics of Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) offspring depending on light intensity in regeneration areas	595
137.	Effects of IAA on mesophyll cell morphogenesis of Triticum turgidum	599
138.	Morphological and physiological changes during the ontogenetic development of peas seeds	603
139.	The effects of cold treatments and activated charcoal on ABA contents of anthers and in vitro androgenesis in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)	607
140.	Protocols of organogenesis and somatic embryogenesis on Juglans regia	611
141.	Morphogenesis of "floating" stomata in the fern Anemia mandioccana Raddi. stomatal pore formation	615
	Author Index	619
	Subject Index	623

Editorial Reviews

Contains some 140 papers from a September 1997 conference, covering several major themes of current interest to botanists, including taxonomy, geobotany, and evolution; biochemistry, metabolism, and bioenergetics; ecology and ecophysiology; structure and its dynamics; genetics, plant breeding, and biotechnology; and growth, development, and differentiation. Subjects include contributions to the biodiversity and phytogeography of the island of Euboea, chilling sensitivity and antioxidant metabolism in maize, effects of copper excess on oregano, biosynthesis of cellulose in red algae, and antioxidant enzymes and chilling stress in tobacco. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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