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Eva-Mari Aro
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University of Turku, Finland
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Bertil Andersson
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University of Stockholm/Linköping, Sweden
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-CP-7
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Evolution, Complexity and Regulation of Photosynthetic Structures
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- Reinhold. G. Herrmann, Peter Westhoff
Pages 1-28
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Gene Expression and Signal Transduction
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- Karsten Liere, Pal Maliga
Pages 29-49
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- Michael Malakhov, Chris Bowler
Pages 51-66
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- Gadi Schuster, Ralph Bock
Pages 121-136
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- Aravind Somanchi, Stephen P. Mayfield
Pages 137-151
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Biogenesis, Turnover and Senescence
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- Maryse A. Block, Eric Maréchal, Jacques Joyard
Pages 195-218
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- Himadri Pakrasi, Teruo Ogawa, Maitrayee Bhattacharrya-Pakrasi
Pages 253-264
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Regulation of Carbon Metabolism
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- Steven Gutteridge, Douglas B. Jordan
Pages 297-312
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- Göran Samuelsson, Jan Karlsson
Pages 313-320
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About this book
The progress in photosynthesis research has been transduction and expression of photosynthetic genes quite dramatic during the last two decades. The which occur both in the nuclear/cytosol compartment Nobel prizes awarded to Peter Mitchel (1978), to and in the chloroplast. Several chapters are devoted Johannes Deisenhofer, Hartmut Michel and Robert to the transcription machinery and the two plastid Huber (1988), to Rudolf Marcus (1992) and to Paul RNA-polymerase complexes, to the regulation of Boyer and John Walker (1997) have recognized— photosynthesis genes by redox signaling both in directly or indirectly—the structural or mechanistic chloroplasts and in the prokaryotic systems, as well discoveries related to the photosynthetic energy as to the sugar sensing mechanisms. Chapters also conversion. Actually, photosynthesis may be the first cover important regulatory aspects imposed by po- biological process described, not only in molecular transcriptional modifications and degradation of terms, but even in atomic terms. mRNA molecules, and the translational regulation Much of the excitement around photosynthesis is mechanisms operating in chloroplasts. based upon the connection between light and life. Part III—Biogenesis, turnover and senescence— is closely connected to the question of regulation. Light is an elusive ‘substrate’ that cannot be handled The chapters included emphasize how the c- in the same way as conventional chemical substrates plicated membrane structures, composed of both in biological metabolic reactions.
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'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)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Turku, Finland
Eva-Mari Aro
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University of Stockholm/Linköping, Sweden
Bertil Andersson
