Plant Nitrogen Metabolism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. An Overview of Nitrogen Metabolism In Higher Plants

   • Dale G. Blevins

   Pages 1-41

3. Plant Genes Involved in Carbon and Nitrogen Assimilation in Root Nodules

   • Desh Pal S. Verma

   Pages 43-63

4. Synthesis, Transport, and Utilization of Products of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

   • John S. Pate

   Pages 65-115

5. Genetics and Molecular Biology of Higher Plant Nitrate Reductases

   • Andris Kleinhofs, Robert L. Warner, James M. Melzer

   Pages 117-155

6. The Use of Mutants Lacking Glutamine Synthetase and Glutamate Synthase to Study their Role in Plant Nitrogen Metabolism

   • Peter J. Lea, Ray D. Blackwell, Alan J. S. Murray, Knenneth W. Joy

   Pages 157-189

7. Assimilation Of Ammonia by Glutamate Dehydrogenase?

   • David Rhodes, Dennis G. Brunk, José R. Magalhães

   Pages 191-226

8. Sites of Action of Herbicides in Amino Acid Metabolism: Primary and Secondary Physiological Effects

   • Dale L. Shaner

   Pages 227-261

9. Metabolism of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylic Acid in Relation to Ethylene Biosynthesis

   • Shang Fa Yang

   Pages 263-287

10. Molecular Aspects of Storage Protein and Starch Synthesis in Wheat and Rice Seeds

    • Thomas Okita, Arun Aryan, Christopher Reeves, Woo Taek Kim, Douglas Leisy, Jim Hnilo et al.

    Pages 289-327

11. Primary and Secondary Metabolism of Polyamines in Plants

    • Hector E. Flores, Calixto M. Protacio, Mark W. Signs

    Pages 329-393

12. Castanospermine, Swainsonine and Related Polyhydroxy Alkaloids: Structure, Distribution and Biological Activity

    • Linda E. Fellows, Geoffrey C. Kite, Robert J. Nash, Monique S. J. Simmonds, Anthony M. Scofield

    Pages 395-427

13. Biosynthesis of Alkaloids Using Plant Cell Cultures

    • Meinhart H. Zenk

    Pages 429-457

14. Back Matter

    Pages 459-474

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This volume is based on papers presented by invited speakers at a symposium entitled "Plant Nitrogen Metabolism" held in conjunction with the 28th Annual Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America. The meeting took place on the campus of the University of Iowa at Iowa City during June 26-30, 1988, and attracted 110 participants from 11 countries. The goal of the symposium was to trace the pathway by which nitrogen passes from soil and atmosphere into both primary and secondary nitrogenous metabolites, focusing upon areas which were felt to be most rapidly expanding. From nodulines (nodule specific proteins) and GS/GOGAT mutants to sugar mimics (polyhydroxyalkaloids) and herbicide inhibitors of amino acid metabolism, research in nitrogen metabolism has expanded into areas barely envisioned only a few years ago. Both the nitrogen specialist and the general plant biochemist will be pleased by the range of topics covered here. Following an overview in Chapter 1 of plant nitrogen metabolism, the remaining chapters are loosely organized into three groups. Chapters 2-6 deal primarily with the biochemistry and molecular biology of nitrogen assimilation and transport, Chapters 7-9 with amino acid metabolism, and Chapters 10-12 with secondary metabolites.

• Amino acid
• Assimilat
• Glutamat
• Glutamin
• biochemistry
• metabolism
• molecular aspects
• nitrogen
• proteins
• reductase
• wheat

• University of lowa, Iowa City, USA

  Jonathan E. Poulton

• University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

  John T. Romeo

• University of California, Davis, Davis, USA

  Eric E. Conn

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