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Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabeA. Structural Botany.- I. General and Molecular Cytology: The Cytoskeleton: Microtubules.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Molecular Organization.- 3. Assembly.- 4. Microtubule Organizing Centers (MTOC's).- 5. Methods of Microtubule Visualization.- 6. Establishment and Maintenance of Cell Shape.- 7. Microtubules and Intracellular Transport.- a) Spindle Formation and Chromosomal Movements During Mitotic Prophase and Metaphase.- b) Sister-Chromosome Separation and Movement During Anaphase.- c) Role of Microtubules in Organelle Movement and Positioning.- 8. Microtubules in the Flagellar Apparatus.- a) Structural and Molecular Properties.- b) Sliding Mechanism.- 9. Antimicrotubular Agents.- References.- II. Cytology and Morphogenesis of the Prokaryotic Cell.- 1. Cell Shape, Cell Differentiation.- a) Myxobacterial Fruiting Bodies.- b) Cell Shape.- 2. Cell Envelope.- a) Surface Layers.- b) Cell Wall of Cyanobacteria.- c) Cell Wall of Eubacteria.- d) Cell Wall Growth.- 3. Cytoplasmic and Intracytoplasmic Membranes.- a) Membranes of Photosynthetic Bacteria.- b) Membranes of Other Bacteria.- c) Bacterial Flagellum.- References.- III. Cytosymbiosis.- 1. Introductory Remarks.- 2. Prokaryotes as Cytosymbionts.- a) Agrobacterium and Rhizobium.- b) Other Eubacteria, and Archaebacteria as Cytosymbionts.- c) Endocyanomes.- 3. Eukaryotic Endocytosymbionts.- a) Eukaryotic Phototrophic Cytosymbionts.- b) Eukaryotic Heterotrophic Cytosymbionts.- 4. Special Forms of Cytosymbiosis.- a) Transfer of Nuclei by Parasitic Red Algae.- b) Chloroplast Cytosymbiosis.- 5. The Endosymbiont Hypothesis: Present State.- 6. Conclusion.- References.- B. Physiology.- I. Plant Water Relations.- 1. Water Relations of Cells and Tissues.- 2. Root Water Uptake and Water Movement Through the Plant.- 3. Stomatal Behavior and Transpirational Water Loss.- 4. Effects of Water Relations on Germination and Growth.- 5. Implications of Water Stress.- a) Drought Effects on Metabolism.- ?) Carbon Metabolism.- ß) Nitrogen Metabolism.- ?) Phytohormones.- b) Drought Resistance.- 6. Implications of Waterlogged Conditions.- 7. Aspects of Applied Water Biology.- 8. Habitat Water Relations and Plant Performance.- 9. Water Relations of Poikilohydric Plants.- a) Cyanobacteria and Algae.- b) Mycophyta, Including Lichens.- c) Bryophyta and Cormophyta.- References.- II. Mineral Nutrition: Sources of Nutrients for Land Plants from Outside the Pedosphere.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Atmosphere as a Source of Plant Nutrients.- a) Rainfall and Canopy Throughfall.- b) Distinction Between Wet and Dry Deposition and Canopy Exchange.- c) Occult Precipitation.- d) Pollutant Gases as Sources of Plant Nutrients.- ?) SO2 and H2S.- ß) Oxides of Nitrogen.- ?) NH3.- 3. Salt Spray by Sea Wind and Mineral Nutrition of Plants.- 4. Epiphytes.- 5. Dinitrogen Fixation in the Phyllosphere.- 6. Animals as Sources of Nutrients.- a) Ant Gardens.- b) The Carnivorous Habit.- References.- III. Photosynthesis. Carbon Metabolism: By Day and by Night.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Inorganic Carbon Uptake.- 3. A Pot-Pourri of Observations with Isolated Intact Chloroplasts.- 4. RuBP Carboxylase.- 5. Enzymes by Day and by Night.- 6. Respiration by Night and by Day.- 7. Fructose-2,6-P2 Regulation of Cytosolic Carbohydrate Metabolism.- 8. Starch Metabolism.- 9. Lipid Biosynthesis.- 10. Nitrogen Assimilation.- 11. C4 Pathway.- a) PEP Carboxylase.- b) Pyruvate Orthophosphate Dikinase.- c) Other Enzymes.- d) Inter- and Intracellular Distinctions.- 12. C3-C4 Intermediates.- 13. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM).- a) PEP Carboxylase.- b) Malate Fluctuations.- c) Other Enzymes.- d) Phases and Rhythms.- e) CAM in Rainforests, Bogs and Under Water.- References.- IV. Metabolism of Organic N-Compounds.- 1. Photorespiratory Nitrogen Metabolism.- 2. Asparagine.- a) Biosynthesis.- b) Metabolism.- 3. Ureides.- a) Biosynthesis.- b) Breakdown.- 4. Amino Acids.- a) Methionine.- b) Aromatic Amino Acids.- c) Branched Chain Amino Acids.- d) D-Amino Acids.- References
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