Plant Endocytosis

Methods and Molecular Tools for Studying Endocytosis in Plants - an Overview.- Endocytic Uptake of Nutrients, Cell Wall Molecules and Fluidized Cell Wall Portions into Heterotrophic Plant Cells.-Plant Prevacuolar Compartments and Endocytosis.-Plant Vacuoles: from Biogenesis to Function.-Molecular Dissection of the Clathrin-Endocytosis Machinery in Plants.-Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis in Plants.-Sterol Endocytosis and Trafficking in Plant Cells.-Auxin Transport and Recycling of PIN Proteins in Plants.-MDR/PGP Auxin Transport Proteins and Endocytic Cycling.-Rab GTPases in Plant Endocytosis.-SNAREs in Plant Endocytosis and the Post-Golgi Traffic.-Dynamin-Related Proteins in Plant Endocytosis.-Endocytosis and Actomyosin Cytoskeleton.-Endocytosis and Endosymbiosis.-Endocytosis in Guard Cells.-Endocytosis and Membrane Recycling in Pollen Tubes.-Tip Growth and Endocytosis in Fungi

Jozef Å amaj received his Ph.D. degree from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He completed three post-doctoral programmes supported by Eurosilva, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the EU Marie Curie Programme in well-recognized laboratories in Toulouse, Bonn, and Vienna. His scientific work has focused on the cell biology of somatic embryogenesis, lignification in tree species, arabinogalactan proteins, the cytoskeleton, and signalling proteins. Jozef Å amaj has co-authored more than 60 research papers, reviews, and book chapters. Currently he is a senior lecturer and associate researcher at the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany in Bonn, Germany. His main research interest centers on the role of stress-induced MAP-kinase cascades in relation to vesicular trafficking and the cytoskeleton during stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana.

František Baluška studied at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. After his doctorate he worked at the Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava, Slovakia), and completed two post-doctoral programmes supported by the Royal Society (London) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn) in Bristol and Bonn. During that time, he focused on the cell biology of the plant cytoskeleton, especially as related to growth and polarity of cells in the root apex. He now is lecturer and associate researcher at the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany in Bonn, Germany. His current main research interest is the signal-mediated interaction between membrane trafficking and the cytoskeleton in the two plant model species Zea mays and Arabidopsis thaliana.

Diedrik Menzel graduated at the Free University of Berlin (Germany) in 1982. He was a predoctoral research fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Melbourne, and a postdoctoral research associate at the Departments of Botany and Zoology of the University of California at Berkeley. In 1988 he habilitated at