The Photosynthetic Apparatus: Molecular Biology And Operation (cell Culture And Somatic Cell Genetics Of Plants Vol. 7b)

The Photosynthetic Apparatus: Molecular Biology and Operation: Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants, Volume 7B is a collection of papers that discuss plastids – organelles found in plants that set them apart from other organisms. The book is divided into two parts. Coverage of Part I includes concepts such as photosynthesis and the photosynthetic apparatus - light energy and photosynthetic electronic transport, photosynthetic phosphorylation, and fractionation of the photosynthetic apparatus; photosystem II – its protein components, genetic aspects, and structure and function; the cytochrome b6/f complex; and the structure and function of coupling factor components. Coverage of Part II includes the biochemistry and molecular biology of chlorophyll; genes and enzymes for carotenoid biosynthesis; photoregulated development of chloroplasts; and the differentiation of amyloplasts and chromoplasts. The text is recommended for botanists, molecular biologists, and biochemists who are interested in the study of plant cells and photosynthesis. Content: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF , Page ii Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv Contributors , Pages xi-xii General Preface , Pages xiii-xv , Indra K. Vasil Preface , Pages xvii-xix , Lawrence Bogorad, Indra K. Vasil Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants Contents of Previous Volumes , Pages xxi-xxviii CHAPTER 1 - An Introduction to Photosynthesis and the Photosynthetic Apparatus , Pages 3-23 , Lawrence Bogorad CHAPTER 2 - Photosystem II , Pages 25-111 , Wim F.J. Vermaas, Masahiko Ikeuchi CHAPTER 3 - Regulated Development of the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Anoxygenic Bacteria , Pages 113-148 , Gerhart Drews CHAPTER 4 - The Cytochrome b 6 / f Complex , Pages 149-176 , W.R. Widger, W.A. Cramer CHAPTER 5 - Photosystem I , Pages 177-224 , Parag R. Chitnis, Nathan Nelson CHAPTER 6 - Coupling Factor Components: Structure and Function , Pages 225-254 , André T. Jagendorf, Richard E. McCarty, Dominique Robertson CHAPTER 7 - Cyanobacterial Phycobilisomes: Progress toward Complete Structural and Functional Analysis via Molecular Genetics , Pages 257-300 , Donald A. Bryant CHAPTER 8 - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Chlorophyll Synthesis , Pages 301-329 , C. Gamini Kannangara CHAPTER 9 - Genes and Enzymes for Carotenoid Biosynthesis , Pages 331-345 , Glenn E. Bartley, Shirley A. Coomber, Dolores M. Bartholomew, Pablo A. Scolnik CHAPTER 10 - RuBisCO: Genes, Structure, Assembly, and Evolution , Pages 347-364 , Harry Roy, Sandra A. Nierzwicki-Bauer CHAPTER 11 - Photoregulated Development of Chloroplasts , Pages 365-394 , Gerhard Link CHAPTER 12 - Differentiation of Amyloplasts and Chromoplasts , Pages 395-415 , Hirokazu Kobayashi CHAPTER 13 - Chromatic Adaptation by Cyanobacteria , Pages 417-446 , Nicole Tandeau de Marsac CHAPTER 14 - Possibilities for Intergenomic Integration: Regulatory Crosscurrents between the Plastid and Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Compartments , Pages 447-466 , Lawrence Bogorad CHAPTER 15 - Protein-Coding Genes in Chloroplast DNA: Compilation of Nucleotide Sequences, Data Base Entries, and Rates of Molecular Evolution , Pages 467-482 , Kenneth H. Wolfe Index , Pages 483-495 The Molecular Biology of Plastids: Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants, Volume 7A deals with various aspects of plastid nucleic acid and protein metabolism. This book is organized into 10 chapters. Chapter 1 provides the introduction to the molecular biology of plastids, followed by a discussion of the maps of restriction endonuclease sites on chloroplast chromosomes in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 focuses on chloroplast gene transmission, while Chapters 4 to 7 describe the apparatus for nucleic acid and protein metabolism and how some transcripts of chloroplast genes are processed. The ribosomal proteins, ribosomes, and translation in plastids are covered in Chapter 8. The last two chapters consider the organization, operation, and transport of polypeptides through the outer plastid membranes. This volume is a good reference for plant molecular biologist, genetic engineers, and researchers conducting work on the molecular biology of chloroplasts. V. 1. Laboratory procedures and their applications.--v. 2. Cell growth, nutrition, cytodifferentiation, and cryopreservation.--v. 3. Plant regeneration and genetic variability.--v. 4. Cell culture in phytochemistry.--v. 5. Phytoche micals in plant cell cultures.--v. 6. Molecular biology of plant nuclear genes. --v. 7A. The molecular biology of plastids.--v. 7B. The photosynthetic apparatus: molecular biology and operation.--v. 8. Scale-up and automation in plant propagation This publication, the first of the two-part seventh volume in a series on plant biology, covers plastid chromosomes, the transmission of plastid genes, the replication and transmission of plant DNA, ribosomal proteins, the details of plastid environment membranes and more. This publication, the second of the two-part seventh volume in a series on plant biology, covers photosynthetic apparatus in anoxygenic bacteria, the cytochrome bf complex, coupling factor components, cyanobacterial phycobilisomes, intergenomic integrations and more.