Photomorphogenesis in Plants and Bacteria: Function and Signal Transduction Mechanisms / Edition 3

by Eberhard Schïfer, Ferenc Nagy

Overview

Plants as sessile organisms have evolved fascinating capacities to adapt to changes in their natural environment. Arguably, light is by far the most important and variable environmental factor. The quality, quantity, direction and duration of light is monitored by a series of photoreceptors covering spectral information from UVB to near infrared. The response of the plants to light is called photomorphogenesis and it is regulated by the concerted action of photoreceptors. The combined techniques of action spectroscopy and biochemistry allowed one of the important photoreceptors – phyhrome – to be identified in the middle of the last century. An enormous number of physiological studies published in the last century describe the properties of phyhrome and its function and also the physiology of blue and UV-B photoreceptors, unidentified at the time. This knowledge was summarized in the advanced textbook “Photomorphogenesis in Plants” (Kendrick and Kronenberg, eds., 1986, 1994). With the advent of molecular biology, genetics and new molecular, cellular techniques, our knowledge in the field of photomorphogenesis has dramatically increased over the last 15 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402038105
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/28/2006
Edition description:	3rd ed. 2006
Pages:	662
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

OVERVIEW OF PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS.- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW.- PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS.- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS IN PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS.- GENETIC BASIS AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION FOR PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS.- THE PHYTOCHROME.- THE PHYTOCHROME CHROMOPHORE.- STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND EVOLUTION OF MICROBIAL PHYTOCHROMES.- PHYTOCHROME GENES IN HIGHER PLANTS: STRUCTURE,EXPRESSION, AND EVOLUTION.- PHYTOCHROME DEGRADATION AND DARK REVERSION.- INTRACELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF PHYTOCHROMES.- BLUE-LIGHT AND UV-RECEPTORS.- BLUE/UV-A RECEPTORS: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW.- CRYPTOCHROMES.- PHOTOTROPINS.- BLUE LIGHT PHOTORECEPTORS -BEYOND PHOTOTROPINS AND CRYPTOCHROMES.- UV-B PERCEPTION AND SIGNALLING IN HIGHER PLANTS.- SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN BLUE LIGHT-MEDIATED RESPONSES.- SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS.- GENERAL INTRODUCTION.- PHYTOCHROME SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION NETWORK.- THE FUNCTION OF THE COP/DET/FUS PROTEINS IN CONTROLLING PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS: A ROLE FOR REGULATED PROTEOLYSIS.- BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF SIGNALLING COMPONENTS.- THE PHOTORECEPTOR INTERACTION NETWORK.- INTERACTION OF LIGHT AND HORMONE SIGNALLING TO MEDIATE PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS.- SELECTED TOPICS.- THE ROLES OF PHYTOCHROMES IN ADULT PLANTS.- A ROLE FOR CHLOROPHYLL PRECURSORS IN PLASTID-TO-NUCLEUS SIGNALING.- PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS OF FERNS.- PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS OF MOSSES.- CIRCADIAN REGULATION OF PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS.- THE MOLECULAR GENETICS OF PHOTO PERIODIC RESPONSES:COMPARISONS BETWEEN LONG-DAY AND SHORT-DAY SPECIES.- COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS RESEARCH.- PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS – WHERE NOW?.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:
"The book is of the highest scientific standard and can be recommended to all researchers in plant photobiology as well as to graduate and postgraduate students."
(Biologia Plantarum 36:4, 1994)

"The editors present a book that has long been awaited. … This book on ‘Photomorphogenesis in Plants and Bacteria’ is highly recommended … . It collects contribution from outstanding scientists in this research field. … The overall presentation of the book is acceptable and most of the figures are reproduced with sufficient quality." (Wolfgang Gärtner, Journal of Plant Physiology, Vol. 165 (3), 2008)

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