Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeA. Morphology.- I. Cytology.- a) Special Cytology: Cytology and Morphogenesis of the Prokaryotic Cell.- 1. Cell Shape and Variation of Cell Structure.- a) Progress in Preparation Techniques.- b) New Isolates.- c) Assembly of Rickettsia.- 2. Bacterial Cell Aggregates.- a) A Cell Conglomerate: Conglomeromonas largomobilis.- b) A Thermophilic Methanogenic Consortium.- 3. The Outermost Bacterial Surface Structures.- a) Chroococcacean Cyanobacteria.- b) An External Layer in Brucella.- c) Extracellular Slime and Swarming.- 4. Cell Wall Type, Composition, Assembly, and Degradation.- a) Identification of the Gram Type.- b) Regular Arrays.- c) Cell Wall Assembly.- d) Cell Wall Degradation.- 5. Bacteriophage Adsorption to Gram-positive Bacteria.- 6. Cell Adhesion.- a) General Remarks.- b) Cell Adherence Mediated by Pili or Fimbriae.- c) Cell Adherence Mediated by Nonfimbrial Adhesins.- 7. Bacterial Membranes.- a) Membranes of Photosynthetic Bacteria.- b) Membranes in Non Photosynthetic Bacteria.- 8. Organization of the Bacterial Nucleoid.- a) Folding of Prokaryotic DNA.- b) Cell Wall - DNA Association.- c) Cosegregation of Cell Wall and DNA.- 9. Bacterial Motility.- a) Motility Mediated by Flagella.- b) A Model for Gliding Motility.- c) Motility of Mycoplasma.- References.- b) Cytology and Morphogenesis of the Fungal Cell.- 1. Books, Monographs, etc.- 2. Morphogenesis of Spores.- a) Zoospores.- b) Sporangiospores.- c) Ascospores.- d) Basidiospores.- e) Conidiospores.- 3. Germination.- a) Spores.- b) Zoosporangia.- References.- II. Morphologie und Histologie der höheren Pflanzen.- a) Vegetative Anatomie der Spermatophyta.- 1. Allgemeines.- 2. Standardwerke.- 3. Der Stamm.- 4. Xylem.- a) Einzelne Xylemstrukturen unter verschiedenen Aspekten.- 5. Phloem, Bast und Borke.- 6. Sekretionsgewebe.- 7. Ergastische Körper.- 8. Das Blatt.- a) Trichome und Stomata.- 9. Die Wurzel.- Literatur.- 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. Water-Stress Effects on Growth and Metabolism.- 5. Aspects of Applied Water Biology.- 6. Habitat Water Relations and Plant Performance.- 7. Water Relations of Poikilohydric Plants.- References.- II. Mineral Nutrition: Vacuoles and Tonoplasts.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Experimental Approaches.- a) Direct Access.- b) Washout or Efflux Analysis.- c) Microphobe Analysis.- d) Differential Extraction.- e) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR).- f) Isolation of Vacuoles and Tonoplast Vesicles.- g) Transcellular Electrical Profiles.- 3. Relationship Between the Vacuole and the Cytoplasm.- 4. The Vacuole and "Efficiency" of Mineral Nutrition.- 5. Outlook.- References.- III. Photosynthesis. Carbon Metabolism: On Land and at Sea.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Superior Performance of Marine Phytoplankton in Photosynthetic Carbon Assimilation.- 3. The Uptake of Inorganic Carbon, and Evidence of a Role for Carbonic Anhydrase.- 4. Chloroplast Carbon Metabolism.- a) RuBP Carboxylase.- b) Other Calvin Cycle Enzymes.- c) Starch Metabolism.- d) "Chloroplast Respiration".- e) Potassium, Calcium, and pH.- 5. Cytosolic Synthesis of Sucrose from Carbon Exported from the Chloroplast.- a) Movement of Metabolites Across the Chloroplast Envelope.- b) The Regulation of Sucrose Biosynthesis.- c) Soluble Low-Molecular-Weight Carbohydrates Other than Sucrose.- 6. Nitrogen Assimilation, and Lipid Biosynthesis.- a) Nitrogen Assimilation.- b) Lipid Biosynthesis.- 7. C4 Metabolism.- a) C4 Plants.- b) C3?C4 Intermediate Plants.- c) CAM.- d) Freshwater Macrophytes, and Stomata.- e) Marine Algae.- 8. Respiration.- a) Mitochondrial (Dark) Respiration.- b) Photorespiration.- References.- IV. Metabolism of Organic Acids.- 1. PEP-carboxylase as the Key Enzyme in Plant Metabolism.- 2. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM).- a) Current Reviews on CAM.- b) Carbon Flow in CAM.- 3. Malate Synthesis by PEPC-med
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