Guide to the Book Plant Kinases

The growing number of fully annotated genomes of model and nonmodel plant species, such as Arabidopsis , Brachypodium , �grapevine, maize, rice, rape seed, soybean, tomato, and others, has led to a tremendous increase in sequence information. The novel genome information has been translated into the putative proteomes and set the ground for a wealth of yet to be explored kinomes. At the same time, cellular pathways are now analyzed in model plants with an unprecedented depth revealing new �mechanisms of regulation and integration of individual modules into regulatory networks. These studies are promoted by new developments in biochemical, molecular, and cell biological techniques of which we provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview in the present methods book (Fig. 1).