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Taylor & Francis
June 2000: 246x174: 458pp:illus. 98 b+w line figures, 6 b+w photos, 2pp plate section.
Hb: 0-7484-0821-5: £85.00
Key Points:
A thorough understanding of the mechanisms of photosynthesis, regulation of structure and function and the adaptive strategies of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms is central to any effort directed at improving crop productivity and providing sustainable agriculture. Photosynthesis is the most widely researched topic in plant science. Further probing of its mechanisms, regulation and adaptation, employing a variety of modern tools and techniques, is imperative to gain a better insight of this very intricate process. Unravelling the cause of stress impairments and stress tolerance in plants would help in ensuring the optimum production of food, fibres and fuels. Probing Photosynthesis represents the state-of the-art on photosynthesis and provides details of experimental approaches that have been adopted to understand the complex regulatory and adaptive processes. Its 27 chapters have been divided into four sections: Evolution, structure and function; Biodiversity metabolism and regulation; Stress and adaptations; and Techniques. Written by leading subject experts from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA, this comprehensive treatise will interest researchers and students from all disciplines of plant science and provide a useful reference for courses in plant biochemistry, crop physiology, plant biotechnology and environmental botany.
Contents:
1. Milestones in Photosynthesis
2. Natural oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis based on newly found chlorophylls
3. Light-harvesting antennas in plants
4. Stalk, no stalk or double stalk? Experimental strategies, results and speculations on CF1CF0 interactions with photosynthetic ATP synthase
5. Energy trandsuction on the Z-scheme
6. Chloroplast thylakoid membranes: a paradigm for biogenetic and evolutionary complexity
7. The manganese cluster in photosystem II, investigated by EPR spectroscopy
8. Diversity in photosynthesis
9. C3/C4 Carbon metabolism and regulation in higher plants
10. Ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate-carboxylase/oxygenase: activation and regulation
11. Molecular aspects of Rubisco specificity
12. CAM photosynthesis: ecophysiological and molecular strategies for survival
13. Photorespiration and interaction between chloroplast, mitochondria and peroxisomes
14. Photosynthesis in relation to crop productivity
15. Strategies of photosynthetic adaptations and acclimation
16. Photoinactivation of the two photosystems in oxygenic photosynthesis-mechanisms and regulations
17. State transitions in cyanobacteria
18. Light-regulated expression of photosynthesis-related genes
19. Photosynthetic productivity prospects under CO2-enriched atmosphere of the 21st century
20. Molecular targets of UV-B radiation in the photosynthetic membranes
21. Photosynthetic adaptation to nutrient stress
22. Water stress responsive proteins/genes in crop plants
23. Applications of mass spectrometry to the study of photosystem two
24. The structure and function of photosynthetic apparatus studied by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
25. The fluorescence transient as a tool to characterise and screen photosynthetic samples
26. The photoacoustic effect in leaves and its applications
27. Common errors in gas exchange measurements.
Contributors:
Karin A. Åhrling, Lund University, Sweden, Jan M. Anderson, Australian National University, Bertil Andersson, Stockholm University, Sweden, M. Arnold, Institut für Botanik der Universität Regensburg, Germany, James Barber, Imperial College of Science, London, UK, Richard J. Berzborn, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Germany, A.S. Bhagwat, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India, R. Carpentier, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, Parag R. Chitnis, Iowa State University, USA, Tanvir Demetriades-Shah, LI-COR Inc. Lincoln, USA, Peter Dominy, University of Glasgow, UK, A. Dhingra, University of Delhi South Campus, India, , Richard L.Garcia, LI-COR, Inc., Lincoln, USA, A. Gnanam, Pondicherry University, India, S. M. Gómez, UCLA, USA, Govindjee, University of Illinois, USA, Anil Grover, University of Delhi, India, David O. Hall, King's College London, UK, Guenter Hauska, Universität Regensburg, Germany, R. G. Herrmann, Botanisches Institut der Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, Shigeru Itoh, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, Masayo, Iwaki, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, Renu, Khanna Chopra, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, G. Kulandaivelu, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, K. Lingakumar, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, Stephen P. Long, University of Illinois, USA, R. M. Maier, Botanisches Institut der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, Shmuel Malkin, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Dayle K. McDermitt, LI-COR Inc., Lincoln, USA, H. R. Morris, Imperial College of Science, London, UK, C. Mullineaux, University College London, UK, Itzhak Ohad, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, K. Padmasree, University of Hyderabad, India, M. Panico, Imperial College of Science, London, UK, A.S. Raghavendra, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad|, India S. Raghuvanshi, University of Delhi, India V.S. Ramadas, University of Hyderabad, India, Idupulapati M. Rao, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia, A.R. Reddy, Pondicherry University, India, J. Sharma, Imperial College of Science, London, UK, R. Singh, CCS Haryana Agriculture University, Haryana, India, S.K. Sinha, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India Kintake Sonoike, University of Tokyo Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Alaka Srivastava, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Reto J. Strasser, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Stenbjörn Styring, Lund University, Sweden, Heidar Ali Tajmir-Riahi, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Norman Terry, University of California, USA, A. Tsimilli-Michael, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, A. K. Tyagi, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India, Jon M. Welles, LI-COR Inc, Lincoln, USA, Gunter Wildner, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany, H. Zhang, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
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