About the Book
Part I: DEVELOPMENT
1 Experimental and Theoretical Methods to Investigate Vascular Development in Plants
Norma Fàbregas, Pau Formosa-Jordan, Marta Ibañes, and Ana I. Caño-Delgado
2 Strigolactone-Mediated Stimulation of Secondary Xylem Proliferation in Stems
Javier Agustí
3 Quick Histochemical Staining Methods to Detect Cell Death in Xylem Elements of Plant Tissues
Sacha Escamez, Benjamin Bollhöner, and Hannele Tuominen
4 Establishment and Utilization of Habituated Cell Suspension Cultures for Hormone-Inducible Xylogenesis
Delphine Ménard, Henrik Serk, Raphaël Decou, and Edouard Pesquet
5 Tissue Culture for Xylem Differentiation with Arabidopsis Leaves
Masato Saito, Alif Meem Nurani, Yuki Kondo, and Hiroo Fukuda
6 VND6-Induced Xylem Cell Differentiation in Arabidopsis Cell Cultures
Oda Yoshida
Part II: IMAGING
7 Live Imaging of Developing Xylem in Planta
Raymond Wightman
8 Immunolocalization in Secondary Xylem of Populus
Suzanne Gerttula and Andrew Groover
9 Monitoring Vascular Regeneration and Xylem Connectivity in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Charles Melnyk
10 Vascular Morphodynamics during Secondary Growth
Pierre Barbier De Reuille and Laura Ragni
11 Improved Mps-PI Staining for Xylem Characterization
Elisabeth Truernit
12 Chemical Imaging of Xylem by Raman Microspectroscopy
Andras Gorzsas
13 Using Cellprofiler to Analyse and Quantify Vascular Morphology
Liam Campbell, Manoj Kumar, and Simon Turner
Part III: COMPOSITION
14 Lignin Analysis by HPLC and FTIR
Jorge Reyes-Rivera and Teresa Terrazas
15 Carbohydrate Composition Analysis in Xylem
Baocai Zhang and Yihua Zhou
16 Structural Analysis of Cell Wall Polysaccharides Using PACE
Jennifer C. Mortimer
17 Analysis of Lignin Composition and Distribution Using Fluorescence Laser Confocal Microspectroscopy
Raphaël Decou, Henrik Serk, Delphine Ménard, and Edouard Pesquet