'I was favorably impressed with the Regulation of Photosynthesis. The chapters are well-written and should be understandable to a broad audience; it will be an invaluable resource in graduate courses.' Plant Science,162 (2002)
Product Description
Regulation of Photosynthesis provides final year undergraduates, graduate students and researchers with a state-of-art overview of regulatory mechanisms governing the development, function, turnover and stress tolerance of the photosynthetic apparatus. The structural components of the photosynthetic apparatus are relatively well known and the next challenge will be to resolve the multitude of the regulatory functions occurring in chloroplasts at the molecular level.
The book is divided into six sections. The first section gives an overview of evolution and complexity of thylakoid structure. The second section examines the expression of photosynthesis-related genes, including signal transduction and redox regulation at both the transcriptional and translational levels. The third section focuses on the biogenesis, turnover and senescence of the thylakoid pigment protein complexes. The fourth section examines crucial regulatory steps in carbon metabolism including those in the ferredoxin-thioredoxin system. Various molecular mechanisms leading to acclimation and stress responses in chloroplasts are reviewed in the fifth section. The sixth section provides examples of novel methods that have become available with information obtained from sequencing programs of photosynthetic organisms and which are now becoming crucial tools also in the studies of photosynthetic regulation. The book is intended for students, teachers and researchers in the field of biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, integrative biology, stress biology and plant biology.
