Higher Plant Cell Respiration

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Introduction

   • D. A. Day, R. Douce

   Pages 1-6

3. Preparation of Plant Mitochondria, Criteria for Assessement of Mitochondrial Integrity and Purity, Survival in Vitro

   • M. Neuburger

   Pages 7-24

4. Molecular Organization and Expression of the Mitochondrial Genome of Higher Plants

   • F. Quetier, B. Lejeune, S. Delorme, D. Falconet

   Pages 25-36

5. Plant Mitochondrial Lipids: Structure, Function and Biosynthesis

   • J. L. Harwood

   Pages 37-71

6. Plant Mitochondrial Cytochromes

   • G. Ducet

   Pages 72-105

7. The Outer Membrane of Plant Mitochondria

   • C. A. Mannella

   Pages 106-133

8. Organization of the Respiratory Chain and Oxidative Phosphorylation

   • A. L. Moore, P. R. Rich

   Pages 134-172

9. The Oxidation of NADH by Plant Mitochondria

   • J. M. Palmer, J. A. Ward

   Pages 173-201

10. The Cyanide-Resistant Pathway of Plant Mitochondria

    • C. Lance, M. Chauveau, P. Dizengremel

    Pages 202-247

11. Membrane Transport Systems of Plant Mitochondria

    • J. B. Hanson

    Pages 248-280

12. The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Plant Mitochondria: Its Operation and Regulation

    • J. T. Wiskich, I. B. Dry

    Pages 281-313

13. Leaf Mitochondria (C3 + C4 + CAM)

    • P. Gardeström, G. E. Edwards

    Pages 314-346

14. Starch and Sucrose Degradation

    • M. Stitt, M. Steup

    Pages 347-390

15. The Organization of Glycolysis and the Oxidative Pentose Phosphate Pathway in Plants

    • T. ap Rees

    Pages 391-417

16. Respiration in Intact Plants and Tissues: Its Regulation and Dependence on Environmental Factors, Metabolism and Invaded Organisms

    • H. Lambers

    Pages 418-473

17. Back Matter

    Pages 475-524

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I am honored by the editor's invitation to write a Preface for this volume. As a member of an older generation of plant physiologists, my lineage in plant respiration traces back to F. F. BLACKMAN through the privilege of having M. THOMAS and W. O. JAMES, two of his "students," as my mentors. How the subject has changed in 40 years! In those dark ages B. 14C. most of the information available was hard-won from long-term experiments using the input-output approach. Respiratory changes in response to treatments were measured by laborious gas analysis or by titration of alkali from masses of Pettenkofer tubes; the Warburg respir­ ometer was just beginning to be used for plant studies by pioneers such as TURNER and ROBERTSON. Nevertheless the classical experiments of BLACKMAN with apples had led to important results on the relations between anaerobic and aerobic carbohydrate utilization and on the climacteric, and to the first explicit concept of respiratory control of respiration imposed by the" organiza­ tion resistance" of cell structure. THOMAS extended this approach in his investi­ gations of the Pasteur effect and the induction of aerobic fermentation by poi­ sons such as cyanide and high concentrations of CO , JAMES began a long 2 series of studies of the partial reactions of respiration in extracts from barley and YEMM'S detailed analysis of carbohydrate components in relation to respira­ tory changes added an important new dimension.

• cell
• fermentation
• plant
• resistance
• respiration

• Centre d’ Etudes Nucléaires et Université Scientifique et Médicale de Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex, France

  Roland Douce

• Département de Recherche Fondamentale Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, UN CNRS N° 576 85X, Grenoble Cedex, France

  Roland Douce

• Botany Department, The Australian National University, Canberra City, Australia

  David A. Day

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