Probing Photosynthesis Mechanism, Regulation & Adaptation [Hardcover]

Probing Photosynthesis represents the cutting edge of research on photosynthesis and provides details of experimental approaches that have been adopted to understand it's complex regulatory and adaptive processes. Its twenty seven chapters have been divided into four sections: Evolution, structure and function; Biodiversity metabolism and regulation; Stress and adaptations; and Techniques. Written by leading subject experts from around the world, this comprehensive treatise will interest researchers and students from all disciplines of plant science and provide a useful reference for courses in plant biochemistry, crop physiology, plant biotechnology and environmental botany.1. Milestones in Photosynthesis Govindjee 2. Natural oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis based on newly found chlorophylls Shigeru Itoh and Masayo Iwaki 3. Light-harvesting antennas in plants Stephen M. Gomez and Parag R. Chitnis 4. Stalk, no stalk or double stalk? Experimental strategies, results and speculations on CF1CF0 interactions with photosynthetic ATP synthase R. J. Berzborn 5. Energy transduction on the Z-scheme Gunter Hauska and Matthias Arnold 6. Chloroplast thylakoid membranes: a paradigm for biogenetic and evolutionary complexity Reinhold G. Herrmann and Rainer M. Maier 7. The manganese cluster in photosystem II, investigated by EPR spectroscopy K.A. Ahrling and S. Styring 8. Diversity in photosynthesis D.O. Hall 9. C3/C4 Carbon metabolism and regulation in higher plants Randhir Singh 10. Ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate-carboxylase/oxygenase: activation and regulation A.S. Bhagwat 11. Molecular aspects of Rubisco specificity G.F. Wildner 12. CAM photosynthesis: ecophysiological and molecular strategies for survival A. Ramachandra Reddy and V.S. Rama Das 13. Photorespiration and interaction between chloroplast, mitochondria and peroxisomes K. Padmasree and A.S. Raghavendra 14. Photosynthesis in relation to crop productivity Renu Khanna-Chopra 15. Strategies of photosynthetic adaptatiols$