Beschreibung
In the summer of 1976 a successful workshop on nucleic acids and protein synthesis in plant systems was organised in Strasbourg by Jacques Weil and Lawrence Bogorad. The participants in the workshop, were, without exception, excited both by the quality of the work discussed and by the rapid progress being made in several areas of genomic analysis and expression in plants. It also became apparent that there was a need for an international assembly of this sort at regular intervals. These workshops not only encourage stim ulating discussion and constructive thinking but also result in increased collaboration and productive liaison between laboratories with common interests. Hence a ten-day advanced studies institute course was organised in Edinburgh from 11-21 July 1979, and in this volume we have published the contributions given by the invited speakers. The subjects discussed covered most areas of plant molecular biology and the lecturers were asked to balance a review of their chosen subject with the results of their own recent research and likely future advances. Probably the most important technical advance since the previous meeting of this group in Strasbourg, was the application of restriction enzyme analysis and cloning techniques. This is illustrated in many of the published lectures and was the basis for many of the more informal discussion sessions.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabeOrganization of the Nuclear Genome.- Contrasting Patterns of DNA Sequence Organisation in Plants.- On the Evolution and Functional Significance of DNA Sequence Organisation in Vascular Plants.- Plant DNA: Long, Pure and Simple.- The Evolution of Plant Genome Structure.- Cloning and Analysis of Plant DNA.- Chromosome and Gene Structure in Plants: A Picture Deduced from Analysis of Molecular Clones of Plant DNA.- A Model for a Molecular Cloning System in Higher Plants: Isolation of Plant Viral Promotors.- Transcription of the Nuclear Genome.- Purification, Structures and Functions of the Nuclear RNA Polymerases from Higher Plants.- RNA Polymerases and Transcription During Developmental Transitions in Soybean.- Nuclear Genome Expression.- Analysis and Resolution of mRNA Populations.- Structural Gene Expression in Tobacco.- The Regulation of Nuclear Genome Expression.- Messenger RNA Domains in the Embryogenesis and Germination of Cotton Cotyledons.- Hormonal and Genetic Regulation of ?-Amylase Synthesis in Barley Aleurone Cells.- Auxin-Regulated Cell Enlargement: Is there Action at the Level of Gene Expression?.- The Effects of Auxin on the Polyadenylated RNA of Soybean Hypocotyls.- The Role of Light in the Induction of mRNAs for Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase and Related Enzymes in Plant Cell Cultures.- Functional Characterization of some Ribosomal Proteins from Wheat Germ.- Macromolecular Properties, Biosynthesis and Genetic Regulation of Cereal Storage Proteins.- Maize Storage Proteins: Characterization and Biosynthesis.- Recent Evidence Concerning the Genetic Regulation of Zein Synthesis.- The Cloning of Zein Sequences and an Approach to Zein Genetics.- The Synthesis of Barley Storage Proteins.- Macromolecular Properties, Biosynthesis and Genetic Regulation of Legume Seed Storage Proteins.- Biosynthesis of Pea Seed Proteins: Evidence for Precursor Forms from in vivo and in vitro Studies.- Bean Seed Globulin mRNA: Translation, Characterization, and its Use as a Probe Towards Genetic Engineering of Crop Plants.- The mRNAs that Code for Soybean Seed Proteins.- Developmental Regulation of Seed Protein Synthesis in Seeds.- Organization and Expression of the Chloroplast Genome.- Organisation and Transcription of Maize Chloroplast Genes.- The Organisation in Higher Plants of the Genes Coding for Chloroplast Ribosomal RNA.- Transfer RNAs and Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in Plant Organelles.- Synthesis, Transport and Assembly Of Chloroplast Proteins.- Synthesis, Transport and Assembly of Chloroplast Proteins.- In vitro Synthesis, Transport, and Assembly of the Constituent Polypeptides of the Light-Harvesting Chlorophyll a/b Protein Complex.- Synthesis, Processing and Functional Probing of P-32000, The Major Membrane Protein Translated Within the Chloroplast.- The Characterisation of Leaf Messenger RNAs and Their Use in the Synthesis of Complementary DNAs.- Sites of Synthesis and Codification of Chloroplast Elongation Factors.- Nuclear Genes Controlling Chloroplast Development.- Mitochondrial Genome Organization and Expression in Higher Plants.- Physico-Chemical and Restriction Endonuclease Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA from Higher Plants.- Mitochondrial Genome Expression in Higher Plants.- The Molecular Biology of Nitrogen Fixation.- Genetics of Nitrogen Fixation In The Bacterium Klebsiella Pneumoniae.- Expression of Host Genes During Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation.- The Ti-Plasmid of Agrobacterium Tumefaciens.- The Ti-Plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens its role in Crown-Gall Formation.- Location and Fate of pTi T37 DNA in Reversion of Crown Gall Teratoma.- Crown Gall Transcription of Ti Plasmid - Derived Sequences.- Crown Gall Specific Gene Products: Octopine and Nopaline Synthase.- Viral Genome Organization and Expression.- Structure of Plant Viral Genomes.- Translation of Plant Virus RNAs.- Expression of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Genome in Turnips (Brassica rapa).- Controlling Elements in Maize: Viroids.- A Re-examination of McClintock
