Moller Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 13, Plastids

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4804-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Annual Plant Reviews

Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 13
Plastids are essential plant organelles, vital for life onearth. They are important not just as photosynthetic organelles(chloroplasts) but also as sites involved in many fundamentalintermediary metabolic pathways. Over the last decade, plastidresearch has seen tremendous advances and an exciting new pictureis emerging of how plastids develop and function inside plantcells. The recent and rapid progress in the field has been duelargely to reverse genetic approaches and forward genetic screeningprograms, which have resulted in the dissection of numerouschloroplast protein-function relationships.
This book provides an overview of the current state of the art.It is directed at researchers and professionals in plantphysiology, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology andbiochemistry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moller, Simon Geir

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The genomic era of chloroplast research.
Dario Leister and Paolo Pesaresi, Abteilung fürPflanzenzüchtung und Ertragsphysiologie, Max-Planck-Institutfür Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Germany.
2. Plastid development and differentiation.
Mark Waters and Kevin Pyke, Plant Sciences Division, School ofBiosciences, University of Nottingham, UK.
3. Plastid metabolic pathways.
Ian Tetlow and Michael J. Emes, College of Biological Sciences,University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Steve Rawsthorne, Departmentof Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK and ChristineRaines, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex,UK.
4. Plastid division in higher plants.
Simon Geir Møller, Department of Biology, University ofLeicester, UK.
5. The protein import pathway into chloroplasts: a singletune or variations on a common theme?.
Ute C. Vothknecht and Jürgen Soll, Department of Biology,Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
6. Biogenesis of the thylakoid membrane.
Colin Robinson, Department of Biological Sciences, University ofWarwick, UK and Alexandra Mant, Department of Plant Biology, TheRoyal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg,Denmark.
7. The chloroplast proteolytic machinery.
Zach Adam, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences andGenetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Rehovot, Israel.
8. Regulation of nuclear expression by plastidsignals.
John C. Gray, Department of Plant Sciences, University ofCambridge, UK.
9. Chloroplast avoidance movement.
Masahiro Kasahara, Gene Research Center, Tokyo University ofAgriculture and Technology, Japan and Masamitsu Wada, Department ofBiological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.
10. Chloroplast genetic engineering for enhanced agronomictraits and expression of proteins for medical/industrialapplications.
Andrew L. Devine and Henry Daniell, Department of MolecularBiology and Microbiology, University of Central Florida, Orlando,USA.
References.
Index