Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXXII

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2. An Introduction to Crassulacean Acid Metabolism. Biochemical Principles and Ecological Diversity

   1. An Introduction to Crassulacean Acid Metabolism. Biochemical Principles and Ecological Diversity

      • K. Winter, J. A. C. Smith

      Pages 1-13

3. Biochemistry of Carbon Flow During Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-18

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   2. Stoichiometric Nightmares: Studies of Photosynthetic O2 and CO2 Exchanges in CAM Plants

      • C. B. Osmond, M. Popp, S. A. Robinson

      Pages 19-30

   3. Alternative Carbohydrate Reserves Used in the Daily Cycle of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

      • C. C. Black, J.-Q. Chen, R. L. Doong, M. N. Angelov, S. J. S. Sung

      Pages 31-45

   4. Roles of Circadian Rhythms, Light and Temperature in the Regulation of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase in Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

      • P. J. Carter, C. A. Fewson, G. A. Nimmo, H. G. Nimmo, M. B. Wilkins

      Pages 46-52

   5. Transport Across the Vacuolar Membrane in CAM Plants

      • J. A. C. Smith, J. Ingram, M. S. Tsiantis, B. J. Barkla, D. M. Bartholomew, M. Bettey et al.

      Pages 53-71

   6. The Tonoplast as a Target of Temperature Effects in Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

      • M. Kluge, M. Schomburg

      Pages 72-77

   7. Regulation of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in Kalanchoë pinnata as Studied by Gas Exchange and Measurements of Chlorophyll Fluorescence

      • U. Heber, W. M. Kaiser, S. Neimanis

      Pages 78-96

   8. Energy Dissipation and the Xanthophyll Cycle in CAM Plants

      • W. W. Adams III, B. Demmig-Adams

      Pages 97-114

4. Environmental and Developmental Control of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-118

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   2. Factors Affecting the Induction of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum

      • G. E. Edwards, Z. Dai, S. H. Cheng, M. S. B. Ku

      Pages 119-134

   3. Transcriptional Activation of CAM Genes During Development and Environmental Stress

      • J. C. Cushman, H. J. Bohnert

      Pages 135-158

   4. Environmental Control of CAM Induction in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum - a Role for Cytokinin, Abscisic Acid and Jasmonate?

      • J. M. Schmitt, B. Fißlthaler, A. Sheriff, B. Lenz, M. Bäßler, G. Meyer

      Pages 159-175

   5. Regulation of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism by Water Status in the C₃/CAM Intermediate Sedum telephium

      • N. Smirnoff

      Pages 176-191

   6. Putative Causes and Consequences of Recycling CO2 via Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

      • C. E. Martin

      Pages 192-203

   7. Ontogenetic Development of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism as Modified by Water Stress in Peperomia

      • I. P. Ting, A. Patel, S. Kaur, J. Hann, L. Walling

      Pages 204-215

   8. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in Leaves and Stems of Cissus quadrangularis

      • A. Virzo De Santo, G. Bartoli

      Pages 216-229

   9. Variations in the Phases of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism and Regulation of Carboxylation Patterns Determined by Carbon-Isotope-Discrimination Techniques

      • A. M. Borland, H. Griffiths

      Pages 230-249

5. Ecophysiology and Evolution of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-254

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Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) represents one of the best-studied metabolic examples of an ecological adaptation to environmental stress. Well over 5 % of all vascular plant species engage in this water-conserving photosynthetic pathway. Intensified research activities over the last 10 years have led to major advances in understanding the biology of CAM plants.
New areas of research reviewed in detail in this book include regulation of gene expression and the molecular basis of CAM, the ecophysiology of CAM plants from tropical environments, the productivity of agronomically important cacti and agaves, the ecophysiology of CAM in submerged aquatic plants, and the taxonomic diversity and evolutionary origins of CAM.

• CAM
• Crassulaceen-Säurestoffwechsel
• Photosynthese
• adaptation
• biology
• ecophysiology
• environment
• environmental stress
• evolution
• gene expression
• metabolism
• physiology
• plant
• plants
• Ökophysiologie

"The book presents an exciting case study in physiological ecology, which should be read by anybody attempting to understand the full range of possibilities for carbon assimilation in nature" - trends in plant sciences

• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

  Klaus Winter

• Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  J. Andrew C. Smith

• Magdalen College, Oxford, UK

  J. Andrew C. Smith

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