"Details all of the photosynthetic factors and processes under both normal and stressful conditions--covering lower and higher plants as well as related biochemistry and plant molecular biology. Contains authoritative contributions from over 125 experts in the field from 28 countries, and includes almost 500 drawings, photographs, micrographs, tables, and equations--reinforcing and clarifying important text material."
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Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBP carboxylase) is the key enzyme of plant carbon metabolism, which catalyzes the initial step of CO2 fixation on RuBP in the dark phase of photosynthesis (Calvin-Benson or C3 cycle). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
silicomolybdate reduction, photorespiratory genes, inner plastid membranes, supramolecular enzyme organization, insertion gradient, lowering air humidity, whole plant net photosynthesis, distal antennae, leaf starch content, stomatal patchiness, aerobic photosynthetic bacteria, chi synthesis, initial nonlinear part, chi alb ratio, ultraweak light emission, midday depression, oxygen flash yields, reaction center polypeptides, cucumber chloroplasts, chi content, chloroplast respiration, cycle enzyme complexes, furanoid rearrangement, mannose feeding, side photoinhibition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Plant Physiol, New York, Plant Cell Physiol, Plant Mol, Academic Press, Plant Sci, Plant Cell Environ, New Phytol, The Hague, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Crop Sci, Boca Raton, Cell Biol, Cambridge University Press, Plant Mot, Plenum Press, Academic Publishing, San Diego, Trends Biochem, Photosynthesis Research, Martinus Nijhoff, The Netherlands, Acta Phytophysiol, Current Research, Plant Soil New!
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Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBP carboxylase) is the key enzyme of plant carbon metabolism, which catalyzes the initial step of CO2 fixation on RuBP in the dark phase of photosynthesis (Calvin-Benson or C3 cycle). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
silicomolybdate reduction, photorespiratory genes, inner plastid membranes, supramolecular enzyme organization, insertion gradient, lowering air humidity, whole plant net photosynthesis, distal antennae, leaf starch content, stomatal patchiness, aerobic photosynthetic bacteria, chi synthesis, initial nonlinear part, chi alb ratio, ultraweak light emission, midday depression, oxygen flash yields, reaction center polypeptides, cucumber chloroplasts, chi content, chloroplast respiration, cycle enzyme complexes, furanoid rearrangement, mannose feeding, side photoinhibition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Plant Physiol, New York, Plant Cell Physiol, Plant Mol, Academic Press, Plant Sci, Plant Cell Environ, New Phytol, The Hague, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Crop Sci, Boca Raton, Cell Biol, Cambridge University Press, Plant Mot, Plenum Press, Academic Publishing, San Diego, Trends Biochem, Photosynthesis Research, Martinus Nijhoff, The Netherlands, Acta Phytophysiol, Current Research, Plant Soil New!
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- Chloroplast Biogenesis: From Proplastid to Gerontoplast by U.C. Biswal on 11 pages
- Photosynthesis by Dr David W Lawlor on 5 pages
- Photoreduction of protochlorophyllide "a" to chlorophyllide "a" during the biogenesis of the photosynthetic apparatus in higher plants by Benoit Schoefs on 5 pages
- Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, Vol. 49 by Steve Taylor on page 81, and page 84
- Common Bean Improvement in the Twenty-First Century (Developments in Plant Breeding) by S.P. Singh on page 367, and page 370
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