Photomovement (Volume 1) (Comprehensive Series in Photosciences, Volume 1)

This volume emphasizes the involvement of all facets of biology in the analysis of environmentally controlled movement responses. This includes biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology and as an integral part of any approach to a closer understanding, physiology. The initial euphoria about molecular biology as the final solution for any problem has dwindled and the field agrees now that only the combined efforts of all facets of biology will at some day answer the question posed more than hundred years ago: "How can plants see?". One conclusion can be drawn from the current knowledge as summarized in this volume. The answer will most likely not be the same for all systems. Content: Series editors' preface Pages v-vi Donat-P. Häder, Giulio Jori Volume preface Page vii Donat-P. Häder, Michael Lebert The editors Page ix Contributors Pages xi-xiii Chapter 1 Photomovement: past and future Original Research Article Pages 1-13 Wolfgang Haupt Chapter 2 Triggering of photomovement - molecular basis Original Research Article Pages 15-50 René M. Williams, Silvia E. Braslavsky Chapter 3 Action spectroscopy of photomovement Original Research Article Pages 51-115 Kenneth W. Foster Chapter 4 Light responses in purple photosynthetic bacteria Original Research Article Pages 117-150 Judith P. Armitage Chapter 5 Color-sensitive vision by haloarchaea Original Research Article Pages 151-178 John L. Spudich Chapter 6 Photoactive yellow protein, a photoreceptor from purple bacteria Original Research Article Pages 179-192 Wim Criellard, Remco Kort, Klaas J. Hellingwerf Chapter 7 Light perception and signal modulation during photoorientation of flagellate green algae Original Research Article Pages 193-227 Georg Kreimer Chapter 8 Algal eyes and their rhodopsin photoreceptors Original Research Article Pages 229-243 Peter Hegemann, Werner Deininger Chapter 9 Electrical events in photomovement of green flagellated algae Original Research Article Pages 245-280 Oleg A. Sineshchekov, Elena G. Govorunova Chapter 10 Rhodopsin-like-proteins: light detection pigments in Leptolyngbya, Euglena, Ochromonas, Pelvetia Original Research Article Pages 281-295 Paolo Gualtieri Chapter 11 Phototaxis of Euglena gracilis —flavins and pterins Original Research Article Pages 297-341 Michael Lebert Chapter 12 Yellow-light sensing phototaxis in cryptomonad algae Original Research Article Pages 343-373 Masakatsu Watanabe, Mayumi Erata Chapter 13 Photo-stimulated effects on diatom motility Original Research Article Pages 375-401 Stanley A. Cohn Chapter 14 Photomovement of microorganisms in benthic and soil microenvironments Original Research Article Pages 403-420 Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Richard W. Castenholz Chapter 15 Phytochrome as an algal photoreceptor Original Research Article Pages 421-448 Gottfried Wagner Chapter 16 Keeping in tune with time: entrainment of circadian rhythms Original Research Article Pages 449-473 J. Woodland Hastings Chapter 17 Photomovement in ciliates Original Research Article Pages 475-503 Francesco Lenci, Francesco Ghetti, Pill-Soon Song Chapter 18 Electrophysiology and light responses in Stentor and Blepharisma Original Research Article Pages 505-518 David C. Wood Chapter 19 Genetic analysis of phototaxis in Dictyostelium Original Research Article Pages 519-559 Paul R. Fisher Chapter 20 Photomovement and photomorphogenesis in Physarum polycephalum : targeting of cytoskeleton and gene expression by light Original Research Article Pages 561-587 Wolfgang Marwan Chapter 21 Genetics of Phycomyces and its responses to light Original Research Article Pages 589-620 Enrique Cerdá-Olmedo, Luis M. Corrochano Chapter 22 Phototropism in Phycomyces Original Research Article Pages 621-657 Paul Galland Chapter 23 Phototropism in higher plants Original Research Article Pages 659-811 Moritoshi Iino Chapter 24 Role of the microtubular cytoskeleton in coleoptile phototropism Original Research Article Pages 813-832 Peter Nick Chapter 25 Solar navigation by plants Original Research Article Pages 833-895 Dov Koller Chapter 26 Light-controlled chloroplast movement Original Research Article Pages 897-924 Masamitsu Wada, Takatoshi Kagawa Index Pages 925-940 The present volume refers to photomovement in a broad sense, comprising: 1. several types of light responses of motile organisms, i.e. modulation of movement in time and/or space (bacteria, lower algae, slime molds, ciliates), 2. light-controlled reversible or irreversible redistribution of cell organelles, particularly chloroplasts (green plants at all levels of organization), and 3. phototropism and photonasty, i.e. bending response with and without respect to the light direction, the former concerning unicellular and multicellular organisms (including higher plants), the latter mainly regulation of stomatal aperture in higher plants, but also flower movements etc. Emphasizes the involvement of various facets of biology in the analysis of environmentally controlled movement responses. This work attempts to answer the question posed more than hundred years ago: "How can plants see?".