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Scaling Up from Molecular to Ecological Processes

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Molecular Ecotoxicology of Plants

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 170))

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Previous chapters in this book have described a number of case studies whose contributions to the concept outlined in Chapter 1 are summarized in Table 8.1. Environmental stress is shown to be countered by numerous preformed or induced genetic and biochemical responses. These may be used operationally as biomarkers to characterize partial aspects of plant fitness. A note of caution is obligatory — so far, this use of molecular biomarkers has only been documented in a limited number of laboratory studies. Development of biomarkers for field use is clearly a task for the future, and current problems of plant and site variability have to be overcome. In addition, functional genomic and biochemical studies have led to a multidimensional view of plant signalling and stress-response networks that has been depicted in the form of a Venn diagram in Chapter 1 (Fig. 1.5). On this basis, it is predicted that the elucidation of signalling and stress response networks in a systematic way will be a major focus of future research.

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Sandermann, H., Matyssek, R. (2004). Scaling Up from Molecular to Ecological Processes. In: Sandermann, H. (eds) Molecular Ecotoxicology of Plants. Ecological Studies, vol 170. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08818-0_8

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