Division and Segregation of Organelles [Paperback]

This 1988 volume provides a stimulating survey of the ways in which the DNA-containing organelles of yeast, animal, and plant cells replicate.This 1988 volume provides a stimulating survey of the ways in which the DNA-containing organelles of yeast, animal, and plant cells replicate. The orderly division and segregation of these organelles is essential for the survival of all eukaryotes and is therefore a topic of importance to a wide range of biologists.This 1988 volume provides a stimulating survey of the ways in which the DNA-containing organelles of yeast, animal, and plant cells replicate. The orderly division and segregation of these organelles is essential for the survival of all eukaryotes and is therefore a topic of importance to a wide range of biologists.These editors provide a stimulating survey of the ways in which mitochondria, plastids, and other cellular organelles replicate. The orderly division and segregation of these organelles is essential for the survival of all eukaryotes and is therefore a topic of importance to a wide range of biologists, from geneticists, via physiologists, to molecular biologists. The first part of the volume examines the mechanism, regulation, and consequences of organelle segregation and division as studied in plant and animal cells. The second part compares the replication of DNA in eukaryote organelles with bacterial processes. Reviews range from a comparative study of DNA polymerases to the possible mechanisms ensuring DNA segregation.Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Factors that influence plastid division in higher plants J. V. Possingham, H. Hashimoto and J. Oross; 2. Nuclear control of plastid division Th. Butterfass; 3. Chloroplast division in higher plants with particular reference to wheat R. M. Leech and K. A. Pyke; 4. Mechanisms and morphology of plastid division J. M. Whatley; 5. The replication of a free-living prokaryote: Escherichia coli W. D. Donachie; 6. Mitochondrial division in animal cells C. J. Dló!