Section I. Introduction.- The potential effects of climate change on world food supply.- Manifestations of mechanical stress in membranes: A prospective hypothesis of endogenous expression of exogenous stress signalling.- Section II. Atmospheric Pollution.- Significance of increasing ambient CO2 for plant growth and survival, and interactions with air pollution.- Ozone, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides: Some effects on the water relations of herbaceous plants and trees.- Ozone/sulphur dioxide interactions in temperate arable crops.- Predisposition to stress following exposure to air pollution.- Influence of nitrogenous air pollutants on carbon dioxide and ozone effects on vegetation.- Impact of air pollutants on plants in hot, dry climates.- The molecular biology of plants exposed to ultraviolet-B radiation and the interaction with other stresses.- The assessment of plant damage by reactive hydrocarbons and their oxidation products.- Too much of a good thing? Long-term exposure to elevated CO2 decreases carboxylating and photorespiratory enzymes and increases respiratory enzyme activity in Spruce.- Section III. Flooding and Submergence.- Climatic change and wetland vegetation in Northern Europe.- Response of coastal vegetation to flooding and salinity: a case study in the rapidly subsiding Mississippi River deltaic plain, USA.- Flood tolerant and flood sensitive plants under primary and secondary anoxia.- Responses to total submergence in tolerant and intolerant riverside species.- Inorganic carbon assimilation and growth of aquatic macrophytes.- A microelectrode study of oxygen distribution in the roots of intact maize seedlings.- Long term survival of rhizomatous species under oxygen deprivation.- Promotion of stem extension in an aquatic monocot (Potamogeton pectinatus L.) by the complete absence of oxygen, and by partial oxygen shortage.- Metabolic acclimation to anoxic conditions and biochemical basis of death.- Energy and fermentation metabolism in hypoxic rice coleoptiles — a multinuclear NMR approach.- Endogenous phytohormones and germination of rice under anoxia: indoleacetic acid and abscisic acid.- Preliminary evidence of nitrate assimilation during the anaerobic germination of rice.- Molecular genetic basis of metabolic adaptation to anoxia in maize and its possible utility for improving tolerance of crops to soil waterlogging.- Metabolic acclimation in winter cereals by interacting low temperature stresses.- Metabolic and cellular impact of ice encasement on herbage plants.- Responses of nodulated legumes to oxygen deficiency.- Section IV. Drought.- Effects of drought and elevated CO2 on plant water use efficiency and productivity.- Water relations in controlled environments and the field.- The physiology of survival at the limits of farming in the dry tropics.- Plant water stress under low rainfall, high temperature summer conditions in Portugal.- Identification of stress tolerance traits in sugar beet.- Stomatal responses to abscisic acid in natural environments.- ABA and the control of growth and physiology of stressed plants.- Regulation of root growth at low water potentials.- Stress-enhanced metabolism of abscisic acid.- Molecular biological responses to drought in maize.- Replacement of glycine betaine by ß-alanine betaine, choline-O-sulphate or dimethylsulphoniopropionate in plants adapted to interacting stresses.- Wall extensibility and the growth of salt stressed leaves.- Growth and composition of nitrogen and water stressed pepper plants, their assessment by remote sensing and their herbivory effects.- Screening methods for determining drought resistance in barley.- Section V. Cold.- Low temperature induced biochemical mechanisms: implications for cold acclimation and de-acclimation.- Molecular mechanisms of freeze-thaw injury and cold acclimation herbaceous plants: merging physiological and genetic approaches.- Molecular biology of cold tolerance.- Redesigning crops for increased tolerance to freezing stress.- The molecular mechanism of the low-temperature tolerance of plants studied by gene technology of membrane lipids.- Aspects of the cellular and molecular basis of cold tolerance in plants.- Section VI. Reports of Working Groups.- Atmospheric Pollution Working Group.- Flooding and Submergence Working Group.- Drought Stress Working Group.- Cold Stress Working Group.
