Lipids in Photosynthesis: Essential and Regulatory Functions [Hardcover]

Lipids in Photosynthesis: Essential and Regulatory Functions, provides an essential summary of an exciting decade of research on relationships between lipids and photosynthesis. The book brings together extensively cross-referenced and peer-reviewed chapters by prominent researchers. The topics covered include the structure, molecular organization and biosynthesis of fatty acids, glycerolipids and nonglycerolipids in plants, algae, lichens, mosses, and cyanobacteria, as well as in chloroplasts and mitochondria. Several chapters deal with the manipulation of the extent of unsaturation of fatty acids and the effects of such manipulation on photosynthesis and responses to various forms of stress. The final chapters focus on lipid trafficking, signaling and advanced analytical techniques. Ten years ago, Siegenthaler and Murata edited Lipids in Photosynthesis: Structure, Function and Genetics, which became a classic in the field. Lipids in Photosynthesis: Essential and Regulatory Functions, belongs, with its predecessor, in every plant and microbiological researcher's bookcase.

Lipids in Thylakoid Membranes and Photosynthetic Cells.- Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Plants  Metabolic Pathways, Structure and Organization.- Biosynthesis and Function of Chloroplast Lipids.- Lipids in Plant Mitochondria.- Plant Sphingolipids: Structure, Synthesis and Function.- Lipids in Algae, Lichens and Mosses.- Molecular Genetics of Lipid Metabolism in the Model Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.- Lipid Biosynthesis and its Regulation in Cyanobacteria.- Heterocyst Envelope Glycolipids.- Lipids in the Structure of Photosystem I, Photosystem II and the Cytochrome b 6 f Complex.- The Role of Phosphatidylglycerol in Photosynthesis.- The Role of Glycolipids in Photosynthesis.- Role of Lipids in the Dynamics of Thylakoid Membranes.- Architecture of Thylakoid Membrane Networks.- Regulatory Role of Membrane Fluidity in Gene Expression.- Lipid Trafficking lC|