Meet the editors

Dr. Biba Vikas carried out her post-doctoral studies on cancer biology from KSCSTE, Jawharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute at Thiruvannathapuram, India. She completed her PhD in cancer biology – biotechnology at the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvanthapuram, India. She worked as a post-doctoral research associate in CSIR- National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India. She started working

as a research fellow at the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Her areas of expertise are cancer research, microbiology, molecular biology, tissue culture, drug delivery, cell-based assays, and phytochemical analysis.

Michael Fasullo, Ph.D., earned his BSc degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and completed his postdoctoral studies with Dr. Rodney Rothstein at Columbia University. His research focuses on understanding the genotoxicity of DNA damaging agents using budding yeast as a model system. He developed assays for quantifying DNA damage-associated recombination. Initially his studies focused on how

cell cycle checkpoints suppress radiation-induced rearrangements. By introducing human cytochrome P450 genes into yeast strains, he now focuses on genome profiling of carcinogen resistance to mycotoxins and heterocyclic aromatic amines. He has published over thirty publications in this field and his research has been supported by National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the March of Dimes.

Contents

Plant Growth Hormones *by Amira Shawky Soliman*

Kinetic Studies on Cell Growth

*and Leila Larisa Medeiros Marques*

*Ludger A. Wessjohann and Andrej Frolov*

Cell-Based Assays in Cancer Research *by Biba Vikas and Sukumaran Anil*

Cell Growth Measurement

*and Benfang Helen Ruan*

*and Ramasamy Madhumathi*

*by Punniavan Sakthiselvan, Setti Sudharsan Meenambiga* 

Growth of Fungal Cells and the Production of Mycotoxins

*by Márcia Regina Ferreira Geraldo Perdoncini, Maria Josiane Sereia, Fabio Henrique Poliseli Scopel, Maysa Formigoni, Eliane Sloboda Rigobello, Stéfani Caroline Beneti, Flavia Aparecida Reitz Cardoso, Livia Benossi Marchi,* 

*Claudio Gomes da Silva Junior, Paula Gimenez Milani Fernandes,* 

*Vanessa de Cássia Mendes Del Bel, Magali Soares dos Santos Pozza* 

Ion Homeostasis Response to Nutrient-Deficiency Stress in Plants

*Veronika Chantseva, Tatiana Bilova, Ludmila Kuchaeva, Nikolai Laman,* 

*by Natalia Osmolovskaya, Julia Shumilina, Ksenia Bureiko,* 

Intracellular Lipid Homeostasis and Trafficking in Autophagy

*Tuan Henrique Smielevski de Souza, Priscila Wielewski, Erica Gomes de Lima, Angelivia Gregório, Maria Rosa Trentin Zorzenon, Juliana Cristina Castro,* 

*by Ning Xu, Xingrou Chen, Jingjing Rui, Yan Yu, Dongshi Gu, Jennifer Jin Ruan* 

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 37**

**Chapter 5 61**

**Chapter 6 85**

**Chapter 7 101**

*by Shreya Goyal, Meaghan R. Robinson, Verónica A. Segarra and Richard J. Chi*
