Photosynthetic Nitrogen Assimilation and Associated Carbon and Respiratory Metabolism

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-CP-3

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2. Photosynthetic Nitrogen Assimilation: Inter-Pathway Control and Signaling

   • Christine H Foyer, Graham Noctor

   Pages 1-22

3. Photosynthesis and Nitrogen-Use Efficiency

   • P. Ananda Kumar, Martin A. J. Parry, Rowan A. C. Mitchell, Altaf Ahmad, Yash P. Abrol

   Pages 23-34

4. Molecular Control of Nitrate Reductase and Other Enzymes Involved in Nitrate Assimilation

   • Wilbur H. Campbell

   Pages 35-48

5. Soluble and Plasma Membrane-bound Enzymes Involved in Nitrate and Nitrite Metabolism

   • Christian Meyer, Christine Stöhr

   Pages 49-62

6. What Limits Nitrate Reduction in Leaves?

   • Werner M. Kaiser, Maria Stoimenova, Hui-Min Man

   Pages 63-70

7. The Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Genetic Manipulation of Primary Ammonia Assimilation

   • Bertrand Hirel, Peter J. Lea

   Pages 71-92

8. Regulation of Ammonium Assimilation in Cyanobacteria

   • Francisco J. Florencio, José C. Reyes

   Pages 93-113

9. Photorespiratory Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling: Evidence from Studies of Mutant and Transgenic Plants

   • Alfred J. Keys, Richard C. Leegood

   Pages 115-134

10. The Regulation of Plant Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase by Reversible Phosphorylation

    • Jean Vidal, Nadia Bakrim, Michael Hodges

    Pages 135-150

11. Mitochondrial Functions in the Light and Significance to Carbon-Nitrogen Interactions

    • Per Gardeström, Abir U. Igamberdiev, A. S. Raghavendra

    Pages 151-172

12. Alternative Oxidase: Integrating Carbon Metabolism and Electron Transport in Plant Respiration

    • Greg C. Vanlerberghe, Sandi H. Ordog

    Pages 173-191

13. Nitric Oxide Synthesis by Plants and its Potential Impact on Nitrogen and Respiratory Metabolism

    • A. Harvey Millar, David A. Day, Christel Mathieu

    Pages 193-204

14. Nitrogen and Signaling

    • Anne Krapp, Sylvie Ferrario-Méry, Bruno Touraine

    Pages 205-225

15. Regulation of Carbon and Nitrogen Assimilation Through Gene Expression

    • Tatsuo Sugiyama, Hitoshi Sakakibara

    Pages 227-238

16. Intracellular And Intercellular Transport Of Nitrogen And Carbon

    • Gertrud Lohaus, Karsten Fischer

    Pages 239-263

17. Optimizing Carbon-Nitrogen Budgets: Perspectives for Crop Improvement

    • John A. Raven, Linda L. Handley, Mitchell Andrews

    Pages 265-274

18. Back Matter

    Pages 275-284

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According to many textbooks, carbohydrates are the photosynthesis and mitochondrial respiration fluctuate in a circadian manner in almost every unique final products of plant photosynthesis. However, the photoautotrophic production of organic organism studied. In addition, external triggers and environmental influences necessitate precise and nitrogenous compounds may be just as old, in appropriate re-adjustment of relative flux rates, to evolutionary terms, as carbohydrate synthesis. In the algae and plants of today, the light-driven assimilation prevent excessive swings in energy/resource provision of nitrogen remains a key function, operating and use. This requires integrated control of the alongside and intermeshing with photosynthesis and expression and activity of numerous key enzymes in respiration. Photosynthetic production of reduced photosynthetic and respiratory pathways, in order to carbon and its reoxidation in respiration are necessary co-ordinate carbon partioning and nitrogen assim- ation. to produce both the energy and the carbon skeletons required for the incorporation of inorganic nitrogen This volume has two principal aims. The first is to into amino acids. Conversely, nitrogen assimilation provide a comprehensive account of the very latest developments in our understanding of how green is required to sustain the output of organic carbon cells reductively incorporate nitrate and ammonium and nitrogen. Together, the sugars and amino acids into the organic compounds required for growth.

• Chloroplast
• Expression
• Photorespiration
• Transport
• biochemistry
• electron transport
• enzymes
• gene expression
• metabolism
• regulation

"All chapters are excellent reviews of recent literature with conclusions for both the dvelopments of sicence, and praxis. [...] this is a basic book for plant physiological, biochemica, and genetic laboratories and libraries."
(Photosynthetica, 41:3 (2003)

• Crop Performance and Improvement Division, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, UK

  Christine H. Foyer

• Institut de la Biotechnologie des Plantes, Université Denis Diderot Paris VII, Orsay, France

  Graham Noctor

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