Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 13, Plastids
Annual Plant Reviews

1. Auflage Oktober 2004
344 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 13
Plastids are essential plant organelles, vital for life on
earth. They are important not just as photosynthetic organelles
(chloroplasts) but also as sites involved in many fundamental
intermediary metabolic pathways. Over the last decade, plastid
research has seen tremendous advances and an exciting new picture
is emerging of how plastids develop and function inside plant
cells. The recent and rapid progress in the field has been due
largely to reverse genetic approaches and forward genetic screening
programs, which have resulted in the dissection of numerous
chloroplast protein-function relationships.
This book provides an overview of the current state of the art.
It is directed at researchers and professionals in plant
physiology, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology and
biochemistry.
Dario Leister and Paolo Pesaresi, Abteilung für
Pflanzenzüchtung und Ertragsphysiologie, Max-Planck-Institut
für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Germany.
2. Plastid development and differentiation.
Mark Waters and Kevin Pyke, Plant Sciences Division, School of
Biosciences, 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, Department
of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK and Christine
Raines, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex,
UK.
4. Plastid division in higher plants.
Simon Geir Møller, Department of Biology, University of
Leicester, UK.
5. The protein import pathway into chloroplasts: a single
tune 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 of
Warwick, UK and Alexandra Mant, Department of Plant Biology, The
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg,
Denmark.
7. The chloroplast proteolytic machinery.
Zach Adam, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and
Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Rehovot, Israel.
8. Regulation of nuclear expression by plastid
signals.
John C. Gray, Department of Plant Sciences, University of
Cambridge, UK.
9. Chloroplast avoidance movement.
Masahiro Kasahara, Gene Research Center, Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology, Japan and Masamitsu Wada, Department of
Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.
10. Chloroplast genetic engineering for enhanced agronomic
traits and expression of proteins for medical/industrial
applications.
Andrew L. Devine and Henry Daniell, Department of Molecular
Biology and Microbiology, University of Central Florida, Orlando,
USA.
References.
Index
plastid biology.
This book is intended for researchers and professionals in plant
physiology, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology and
biochemistry."
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