Discoveries in Plant Biology

by Kung, Shain-Dow

• ISBN13: 9789810238827
• ISBN10: 9810238827
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

"The different chapters not only provide excellent overviews into the development of essential discoveries in plant biology, they also help the reader to better understand the background, current status and future direction of the research in each of the areas covered".Journal of Plant Physiology, 2001

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Contributors	vii
The Discovery of the Essential Elements	1	(16)
Epstein, Emanuel
The Discovery of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylic Acid as the Immediate Precursor of Ethylene	17	(26)
Adams, Douglas O.
Discovery of Auxin	43	(16)
Masuda, Yoshio
Kamisaka, Seiichiro
Non-Reducing Saccharides: Floridosides and Sucrose	59	(16)
Su, Jong-Ching
Chlorophyll Biosynthesis I: From Analysis of Mutants to Genetic Engineering of the Pathway	75	(20)
von Wettstein, Diter
Chlorophyll Biosynthesis II: Adventures with Native and Recombinant Enzymes	95	(46)
von Wettstein, Diter
Discovery of the Two Parallel Pathways for Isoprenoid Biosynthesis in Plants	141	(22)
Lichtenthaler, Hartmut K.
Structure and Biosynthesis of Cellulose Part I: Structure	163	(36)
French, Alfred D.
Structure and Biosynthesis of Cellulose Part II: Biosynthesis	199	(18)
Delmer, Deborah P.
The Discovery of Starch Biosynthesis	217	(22)
Preiss, Jack
Sivak, Mirta N.
Seed Storage Proteins from the 1700s to the Present	239	(16)
Ogawa, Masahiro
Okita, Thomas W.
The Discovery of 2S Albumins As Abundant Storage Proteins in Seeds	255	(12)
Huang, Anthony H. C.
Youle, Richard J.
The Discovery of Maternal Inheritance of Large Subunit of Rubisco	267	(8)
Kung, Shain-Dow
Chloroplast Cytochromes: Discovery and Characterization	275	(16)
Gray, John C.
Discovery of Plasma Membrane Proton Pumping ATPase: Our Point of View	291	(14)
Leonard, Robert T.
Hodges, Thomas K.
Plant Ubiquitin	305	(20)
Vierstra, Richard D.
Thirty Years of Fun with Antenna Pigment-Proteins and Photochemical Reaction Centers: A Tribute to the People Who Have Influenced My Career	325	(22)
Thornber, J. Philip
The Discovery of the Heat Shock Response in Plants	347	(24)
Chang, Pi-Fang Linda
Lin, Chu-Yung
Discovery of Photoregulated Gene Expression	371	(12)
Watson, John C.
Organization and Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation Genes: 1974-1995	383	(10)
Shen, San Chiun
The Ti-plasmid and Plant Molecular Biology	393	(18)
Schell, Jeff
Koncz, Csaba
Active Ion Transport in Plants	411	(12)
Bloom, Arnold J.
Taylor, Alison R.
Discovery of Chilling Injury	423	(26)
Saltveit, Mikal E.
In Vitro Induced Haploids in Plant Genetics and Breeding	449	(8)
Hu, Han
Guo, Xiangrong
Index	457