Progress in Photosynthesis Research : Volume 4 Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress on Photosynthesis Providence, Rhode Island, USA, August 10–15, 1986

These Proceedings comprise the majority of the scientific cont ribut ions that were presented at the VIIth International Congress on Photosynthesis. The Congress was held August 10-15 1986 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA on the campus of Brown University, and was the first in the series to be held on the North American continent. Despite the greater average travel distances involved the Congress was attended by over 1000 active participants of whom 25% were registered st udent s . This was gratifying and indicated that photosynthesis will be well served by excellent young scientists in the future. As was the case for the VIth International Congress held in Brussels, articles for these Proceedings were delivered camera ready to expedite rapid publication. In editing the volumes it was interesting to reflect on the impact that the recent advances in st ruct ure and molecular biology had in this Congress. It is clear that cognizance of st ruct ure and molecular genetics will be even more necessary in the design of experiments and the direction of future research. Front Matter....Pages I-XXVII Environmental Stress and Photosynthesis....Pages 1-10 High-Irradiance Stress in Higher Plants and Interaction with other Stress Factors....Pages 11-18 Photoinhibition of Photosynthesis Studies on Mechanisms of Damage and Protection in Chloroplasts....Pages 19-26 Alteration of Electron Flow around P 680 : The Effect on Photoinhibition....Pages 27-30 Weak Light Photoinhibition of PSII and its Light Dependent Recovery....Pages 31-34 Chlorophyll Photobleaching is Dependent on Photosystem II Inhibition....Pages 35-38 Photoinhibition at Chilling Temperatures in Intact Leaves and Isolated Chloroplasts of Barley....Pages 39-42 Effects of Bicarbonate on Photoinhibition in Isolated Pea Chloroplasts....Pages 43-46 Modification of the Photochemical Apparatus in Maize by Photoinhibitory Stress at Low Temperature....Pages 47-50 Photoinhibitory Stress Causes Accumulation of a 31 Kilodalton Protein in the Chloroplast Light-harvesting Apparatus....Pages 51-54 The Kinetics of Photosystem 2 Photoinactivation in Whole Cells, Thylakoids and PS2 Particles of a Thermophilic Blue Green Alga Synechococcus Elongatus....Pages 55-58 Photoinhibition of Isolated Chloroplasts and Protoplasts....Pages 59-62 Epr Analysis of Photosystem I Degradation During Photoinhibition of Isolated Chloroplast Membranes....Pages 63-66 A High CO 2 -Requiring Mutant of Arabidopsis Thaliana that Displays Photooxidation in Air....Pages 67-70 Inhibition of Photosystem 2 by Thylakoid Membrane Phosphorylation....Pages 71-74 Can Protein Phosphorylation Alleviate Photoinhibition of Thylakoid Photochemical Activities?....Pages 75-78 Heat Shock Proteins Partially Protect Against Photoinhibition of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii During Heat Shock....Pages 79-85 Light Regulation of Recovery from Photoinhibition....Pages 87-90 Photoinhibition and Recovery in Intact Leaves of Pisum Sativum Grown in High and Low Light Intensity....Pages 91-94 Involvement of the Q B Binding Protein (M r 32000) in the Adaptation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus to Light Intensity....Pages 95-98 Comparative Studies on Effects of Low Temperature on Chlorophyll Fluorescence Induction Kinetics and Photochemcal Activities of Cucumber and Winter Wheat....Pages 99-102 Effect of Chilling on the Activity of Enzymes of the Photosynthetic Carbon Reduction Cycle....Pages 103-106 Stress Resistance of Thylakoids: Mechanical Freeze-Thaw Damage and Effects of Frost Hardening....Pages 107-110 Acclimation of Light-Harvesting and Light-Utilization Capacities in Response to Growth Temperature....Pages 111-114 Thylakoid Membrane Composition and Photoinactivation of CO 2 Fixation in Moss Protonemata as Influenced by the Growth Temperature....Pages 115-118 Phosphatidylglycerol Content and Composition Influence in Vitro Oligomerization of Purified Lhcii From Winter Rye....Pages 119-122 3-Transhexadecenoic Acid Content and Lhcii Organization During Chloroplast Biogenesis at Low Temperature....Pages 123-125 In Vivo Low Temperature-Induced Decrease in 3-Transhexadecenoic Acid Influences Oligomerization of LHCII....Pages 127-130 Chilling Dependent Photoinhibition of Photosynthetic CO 2 Uptake....Pages 131-138 Damage to Maize Photosynthesis in the Field During Periods When Chilling is Combined With High Photon Fluxes....Pages 139-142 A Chloroplast Heat Shock Protein Has Homology to Cytoplasmic Heat Shock Proteins....Pages 143-145 Magnesium and the Acclimation of Photosynthesis to Low Leaf Water Potentials....Pages 147-151 In Situ Measurements of the Inhibitory Effects of Low Leaf Water Potentials on Photophosphorylation....Pages 153-156 Effects of Water Stress on in Vivo Photosynthetic Biochemistry (Maximum Photosynthesis, Quantum Yield and 77 K Fluorescence)....Pages 157-160 Contribution of Osmotic Adjustment to the Maintenance of Photosynthesis during Water Stress....Pages 161-168 Photosynthesis under Osmotic Stress. A Possible Cause of the Osmotic Stress Induced Susceptibility to Photoinhibition....Pages 169-172 Effect of High Leaf K + on Gas Exchange of Water Stressed Wheat Leaves....Pages 173-176 Solute Accumulation in Chloroplasts during in situ Water Stress....Pages 177-180 Water-Stress Effects on CO 2 Exchange in Two Grapevine Cultivars....Pages 181-184 Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) as a Possible Endogenic Protecting Agent of PEP Using Enzymes against Inactivation by Salt....Pages 185-188 Targets of Salinity Stress in Spinach....Pages 189-192 The Response of Dunaliella to Salt Stress: A Comparison of Effects on Photosynthesis, and on the Intracellular Levels of the Osmoregulatory Solute Glycerol, the Adenine Nucleotides and the Pyridine Nucleotides....Pages 193-196 Effects of Long-Term and Transient Changes in Salinity on Photosynthesis, Leaf Demography and Growth in Plantago Maritima L.....Pages 197-200 Photosynthetic Pigment Composition of Higher Plants Grown under Iron Stress....Pages 201-204 Responses of Photosynthesis and Leaf Angle to Water and Nutrient Stress in Soybean....Pages 205-208 Genetic Variation in the Relationship between Photosynthetic CO 2 Assimilation Rate and Stomatal Conductance to Water Loss....Pages 209-212 The Measurement and Significance of CO 2 -Gas Exchange Transients in Leaves....Pages 213-220 A Model Predicting Stomatal Conductance and its Contribution to the Control of Photosynthesis under Different Environmental Conditions....Pages 221-224 A General Expression for the Control of the Rate of Photosynthetic CO 2 Fixation by Stomata, the Boundary Layer and Radiation Exchange....Pages 225-228 Gas Exchange of Flag Leaves and Ears of Wheat. Interpretation on the Basis of a Photosynthesis Model....Pages 229-232 Characteristics of the CO 2 Exchange of Wheat Ears....Pages 233-236 Transients of the O 2 Gas-Exchange of Cryptocoryne Ciliata: The Response to Different pH during Cultivation....Pages 237-240 An Artificial Leaf for Checking Accuracy in the Estimation of Internal Partial Pressure of CO 2 in Gas-Exchange Measurement....Pages 241-243 Gas Exchange Studies of Carboxylation Kinetics in Intact Leaves....Pages 245-252 Effects of Short-Term and Long-Term Exposures to Varying CO 2 Concentrations on Soybean Photosynthesis....Pages 253-256 Photosynthetic Utilization of Lightflecks by Tropical Forest Plants....Pages 257-260 A Model of Photosynthesis for Isobilateral Leaves Incorporating Biochemical Constraints and the Light Gradient within the Leaf....Pages 261-264 A Minireview: Comparative Biochemistry of Photosynthesis in Palisade Cells, Spongy Cells, and Guard Cells of C 3 Leaves....Pages 265-272 The Guard Cell Chloroplast: Properties and Function....Pages 273-280 Carboxylation of Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate Inhibited after Application of the Phytohormone, Abscisic Acid, to Whole Leaves of Xanthium Strumarium (C 3 ) and Zea mays (C 4 )....Pages 281-281 The Ratio of RuBP Carboxylase to Oxygenase Activity and Photosynthetic Gas Exchange....Pages 283-288 Inorganic Carbon Fluxes and Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria — A Quantitative Model....Pages 289-296 A Model for Inorganic Carbon Accumulation in Cyanobacteria....Pages 297-300 The Mechanism of Inorganic Carbon Uptake by Cyanobacteria: Energization and Activation by Light....Pages 301-307 Immunochemical Studies on the Major Proteins in Cytoplasmic Membranes of Cyanobacteria....Pages 309-312 The Role of Carbonic Anhydrase in the Inorganic Carbon Concentrating System of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ....Pages 313-316 Regulation of Carbonic Anhydrase Expression in Chlamydomonas ....Pages 317-324 Photosynthetic Characteristics of Several High-CO 2 -Requiring Mutants of Chlamydomonas ....Pages 325-328 Diffusion and Active Transport of Inorganic Carbon Species in Freshwater and Marine Macroalgae....Pages 329-332 Photosynthetic Responses to Oxygen and Inorganic Carbon of Low- and High-CO 2 -Grown Cells of Chara Corallina ....Pages 333-340 Inorganic Carbon Concentrating Systems from an Environmental Perspective....Pages 341-344 Evidence for Bicarbonate Active Transport in Elodea Nuttallii ....Pages 345-352 Evidence of a CO 2 -Concentrating Mechanism in C 4 and Some C 3 -C 4 Intermediate Flaveria Species....Pages 353-356 Variation in Photosynthetic Characteristics among Triticum Species and Attempts to Exploit it in Breeding....Pages 357-360 Photosynthesis, Photosynthate Partitioning, and Productivity of Temperate Forage Legumes....Pages 361-368 Barriers to Increasing Crop Productivity by Genetic Improvement in Photosynthesis....Pages 369-376 Genetic Control of Photosynthesis in Relation to Growth of Pea ( Pisum sativum L.) Plants....Pages 377-384 Effect of Potassium on Photosynthetic Apparatus and Yield Components of Wheat Plant....Pages 385-391 Relationship between Certain Photosynthetic Parameters and Yield in Different Wheat Cultivars....Pages 393-393 Growth Kinetics and Photosynthetic O 2 -Evolution by Chlorella Immobilized in Ca-Alginate....Pages 395-398 Effect of Growth Regulators on the Growth, Chlorophyll Development and Productivity of Euphorbia Lathyris L: A Hydrocarbon Yielding Plant....Pages 399-402 Sugar Beet Factory Wastewater Treatment in a High Rate Oxidation Pond....Pages 403-406 Photosynthetic Capacity, Leaf Development, Growth and Productivity of Sugar Beet under Optimal Nitrogen Supply....Pages 407-410 Equations to Define Canopy Photosynthesis from Quantum Efficiency, Maximum Leaf Rate, Light Extinction, Leaf Area Index, and Photon Flux Density....Pages 411-414 Effects of CO 2 Enrichment Preconditioning on Chlorophylls Contents and Photosynthetic CO 2 Exchange in Tomato Leaves....Pages 415-418 Regulation of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis. Genetics and Biochemistry of Delta-Aminolevulinate Synthesis....Pages 419-421 Biosynthetic Precursors of δ-Aminolevulinic Acid in Plants and Algae....Pages 423-430 Formation of δ-aminolevulinic Acid from Glutamic Acid in Algal Extracts: Fractionation of Activities and Biological Constraints on the RNA Requirement....Pages 431-434 Non Equivalence of Glutamic and δ-Aminolevulinic Acids as Substrates for Protochlorophyllide and Chlorophyll Biosynthesis in Darkness....Pages 435-438 Two Pathways of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Biosynthesis Destined for Formation of Bacteriochlorophylls in Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 439-443 Cloning and Expression of a Gene Complementing 5-Aminolevulinate Dehydratase Deletion in E. Coli Strain SHSP3....Pages 445-448 Subcellular Localisation of Porphyrin Synthesis Enzymes in Pea and Arum....Pages 449-452 Oxidation of Protoporphyrinogen to Protoporphyrin, a Step in Chlorophyll and Heme Biosynthesis: Purification and Partial Characterization of the Enzyme from Barley Mitochondria and Etioplasts....Pages 453-456 Chlorophyll Synthetase and its Implication for Regulation of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis....Pages 457-460 Photoreactions in Chloroplast Development....Pages 461-467 The Purification and Properties of Three Latter-Stage Enzymes of Chlorophyll Synthesis....Pages 469-474 Protochlorophyllide Reduction in Anabaena....Pages 475-482 Comparison of Chlorophyll Accumulation and 14 C-ala Incorporation into Chlorophyll in Dark and Light in Green Barley....Pages 483-486 Chlorophyll RC I, its Structure, Function and Biosynthesis....Pages 487-490 Tetrypyrrole Turnover in Plants....Pages 491-498 Alterations in Photosynthetic Pigment Synthesis in Tissue Cultured Tobacco Callus....Pages 499-502 A Method for Determining Phycocyanin and Chlorophyll Concentrations in Whole Cell Suspensions of Cyanidium Caldarium ....Pages 503-506 Light Regulation of Plastid Gene Expression during Chloroplast Biogenesis in Barley; Evidence for Regulation of Translation and Post-Transcriptional Determination of mRNA Levels....Pages 507-510 Photoregulation of Maize Plastid Genes during Light-Induced Development....Pages 511-518 Light Regulation of Genes for the Large and Small Subunits of Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase in Tobacco....Pages 519-526 Light Regulation and Localization of OEC-33 in Maize....Pages 527-530 Protochlorophyllide Reductase and the Failure of Corn to Acclimate to Low Irradiances....Pages 531-534 Chloroplast Development and Regulation of LHCP-Gene Expression in Greening Cultured Soybean Cells....Pages 535-538 Accumulation and Degradation of P700-Chlorophyll a Protein, Complex, Plastocyanin, and Cytochrome b 6 / f Complex....Pages 539-542 Biosynthesis of Chloroplast Ribosomal Components....Pages 543-546 Acclimation of Rubisco Activity and Quantity to Different Irradiances within a Same Tobacco Leaf. Differential Expression in SSU and LSU mRNA....Pages 547-551 Pyruvate, Pi Dikinase mRNAs of Maize....Pages 553-556 Changes in the Appearance of Ribulose-1.5-Bisphosphate-Carboxylase (RuBPCase) during Senescence of Mustard Cotyledons....Pages 557-560 Translational Regulation of Light-Induced Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase Gene Expression in Amaranth....Pages 561-564 Transport and Processing of Ferredoxin and Plastocyanin: A Thylakoid-Specific Processing Enzyme....Pages 565-568 Some Requirements for the Insertion of the Precursor of Apoproteins of Lemna Light-Harvesting Complex II into Barley Thylakoids....Pages 569-572 Synthesis of Chlorophyll-Binding Polypeptides during Greening of Etiolated Barley....Pages 573-576 Evidence for Translational Regulation of Euglena Protein Synthesis by Light....Pages 577-580 Synthesis of Chloroplast Proteins in Chlamydomonas....Pages 581-584 Synthesis of Polypeptides Associated with PSI by the Isolated Sorghum Vulgare Chloroplasts....Pages 585-588 In Vitro Synthesis of Heat Shock Proteins by Chloroplasts....Pages 589-592 Development of the Photosystem I Light-Harvesting Apparatus in Wheat....Pages 593-596 A Chlorophyll B Deficient Mutant of Wheat with an Altered Photoadaptation Response....Pages 597-600 Euglena Ferredoxin Nadp Reductase, LHCP Apoprotein, and Their Photocontrol During Chloroplast Development....Pages 601-604 Dynamic Morphological Changes of Proplastids and Mitochondria in Dark-Organotrophically Grown Cells of Euglena Gracilis Transferred to an Inorganic Medium....Pages 605-608 Photoreduction of NADP + During Early Greening of Etiolated Bean Leaves....Pages 609-612 Chloroplast Genes for Photosynthetic Membrane Components....Pages 613-616 Characterisation of Genes for Components of Photosystem II in Wheat Chloroplast DNA....Pages 617-624 Biogenesis of Photosystem II Complex in Spinach Chloroplasts....Pages 625-628 Photosystem II Biogenesis: Roles of Nuclear Gene Products....Pages 629-636 Chloroplast Gene Expression in Chloroplast Ribosome-Deficient Mutants of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii....Pages 637-644 A Gene Cluster in the Z. Mays Plastid Genome is Homologous to Part of the S10 Operon of E. COLI ....Pages 645-648 Evolution of the 5′ and 3′ Regions Flanking the tRNA HIS Gug Gene in the Dicot Chloroplast Genome: The Role of Insertions/Deletions....Pages 649-652 Characterization Of The B6/F Complex Subunits and Studies On The LHC-Kinase In Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Using Mutant Strains Altered In The B6/F Complex....Pages 653-653 Molecular Cloning and Nucleotide Sequences of the Genes Encoding Cytochrome B-559 from the Cyanelle Genome of Cyanophora Chapaudoxa ....Pages 655-658 Molecular Characterization of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii , ac-208: A Plastocyanin-Less Mutant....Pages 659-662 The Gene for the P 700 -Chlorophyll a Protein in Euglena Gracilis is Interrupted by Three Introns....Pages 663-666 Structural and Functional Relatedness of Chromophytic and Rhodophytic RuBP Carboxylase Enzymes....Pages 667-670 Initial Characterization of Mutator -Induced Photosythesis Mutations....Pages 671-674 Failure to Process the D1 Protein Inhibits the Oxidizing Side of PSII but not the Reaction Center or Reducing Side Reactions: Analysis of the LF-1 Mutant of Scenedesmus....Pages 675-678 DNA Biosynthesis in Chloroplasts and Its Regulation: Studies on Isolated Chloroplasts and Chloroplast Extracts....Pages 679-682 Chloroplast-Based In Vitro Translation System....Pages 683-686 Regulation of Gene Expression and Assembly of the Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes....Pages 687-690 Analysis of Transcription Through the Rhodobacter Capsulatus puf Operon Using a Translational Fusion of pufM to the E. Coli LacZ Gene....Pages 691-697 Molecular Genetics of C-type Cytochromes and of Ubiquinol-Cytochrome C 2 Oxidoreductase of Rhodopseudomonas Capsulata ....Pages 699-705 Molecular Genetics of the Ubiquinol: Cytochrome C 2 Oxidoreductase of Rhodopseudomonas Capsulata ....Pages 707-712 Oxygen and Light Regulation of Expression of Genes for Light Harvesting (LH-I, LH-II), Reaction Center (RC-L, RC-M, RC-H), Pigment Biosynthesis and a Transcriptional Role in the Protective, Function of Carotenoids in Rhodobacter Capsulatus ....Pages 713-716 The Role of the Light-harvesting I Antenna Proteins in the Correct Insertion of the Photochemical Reaction Center of Rhodobacter Capsulatus and Rhodobacter Sphaeroides ....Pages 717-720 Genetic and DNA Sequence Analysis of a Rhodobacter Capsulatus Mutant Unable to Properly Insert Photochemical Reaction Centers into the Membrane....Pages 721-724 Assembly of Photosynthetic Units in Membranes of Rhodobacter Sphaeroides During a Down-Shift in Light Intensity....Pages 725-728 Cloning and Oxygen Regulated Expression of Genes Coding for the Reaction Centre and Light Harvesting Polypeptides of Rhodopseudomonas Sphaeroides ....Pages 729-732 Cloning and Oxygen Regulated Expression of Genes for the Bacteriochlorophyll Biosynthetic Pathway in Rhodopseudomonas Sphaeroides ....Pages 733-736 Isolation of Genes Encoding the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Chloroflexus ....Pages 737-740 Oxygen Regulation of Cytochrome C554 Synthesis in Chloroflexus....Pages 741-744 The Cyanobacterial Photosynthetic Apparatus: A Structural and Functional Analysis Employing Molecular Genetics....Pages 745-748 Genes with Mutations Causing Herbicide Resistance from the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002....Pages 749-755 The Effects of Light Intensity and Nitrogen Starvation on the Phycocyanin Promoter in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002....Pages 757-760 Organization of the Genes Encoding Phycoerythrin and the Two Differentially Expressed Phycocyanins in the Cyanobacterium Pseudanabaena PCC 7409....Pages 761-764 Molecular Cloning and Preliminary Characterization of a recA Gene from the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002....Pages 765-768 Genetic Analysis of a Cyanobacterial Gene Encoding a Membrane Protein Which Accumulates Under Iron Stress....Pages 769-772 Cloning and Characterization of a Gene Encoding an Iron-Regulated Membrane Protein in Anacystis Nidulans R2....Pages 773-776 The Construction of Hybrid Cloning Vectors and the Improvement of Transformation Efficiency in the Cyanobacteria, Anacystis Nidulans R2 and A . Nidulans R2-SPC....Pages 777-780 Differential Effects of Iron and Chlorophyll in the Control of Membrane Synthesis in Anacystis Nidulans ....Pages 781-784 Polypeptide Rapid Turnover and Photosystem II Recovery from Calcium Stress in Anacystis Nidulans ....Pages 785-788 Isolation and Sequence of the Gene for Ferredoxin I from the Cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120....Pages 789-792 Isolation And Nucleotide Sequence Analysis of the Ferredoxin Gene from the Cyanobacterium Anacystis Nidulans R2....Pages 793-795 Cyanobacterial Genes for the Cytochrome B6-F Complex: Sequence Homology with Plastid and Bacterial Genes but Divergence of Operon Structure....Pages 797-800 Site-Directed Mutagenesis in the Photosystem II Gene psbD , Encoding the D2 Protein....Pages 801-803 Nucleotide Sequences of Both psbD Genes from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803....Pages 805-808 Genetically Engineered Cytochrome B559 Mutants of the Cyanobacterium, Synechocystis 6803....Pages 809-812 Phycocyanin Genes in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6701 and a Potential Gene Rearrangement in a Pigment Variant....Pages 813-816 Diuron Resistance in the PSBA Multigene Family of Anacystis Nidulans R2 ....Pages 817-820 Functioning of Photosystem II in Mutant Strains of the Cyanobacterium Anacystis Nidulans R2....Pages 821-824 Contiguous NIF Gene Organization in a Heterocystous Cyanobacterium....Pages 825-828 Molecular Cloning of a recA-Like Gene from the Cyanobacterium Anabaena Variabilis ....Pages 829-832 Cyanobacterial Transformation: Expression of Col E1 Plasmids in Anacystis Nidulans 6301....Pages 833-836 Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of Cyanobacteria Defective in Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution....Pages 837-840 Back Matter....Pages 841-844 ....Pages 845-858