The Photosystems. Structure, Function and Molecular Biology

✍ Scribed by J. Barber (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 564
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There is very little in this eleventh volume of Topics in Photosynthesis which could have been written when the first volume was published fifteen years ago. Advances over the last decade have been spectacular, most particularly in our understanding of the photosystems that is the subject of this volume. After a comparative introducution of bacterial and plant photosystems, the book begins with a consideration of what is theoretically possible in energy conversion. This is followed by light harvesting in photosystems II, followed by its molecular biology, protein engineering, thermoluminescence, photoinhibition, the effect of herbicides and heat shock, and, most important function of all and one about which so little is yet understood at the molecular level, the process by which it evolves oxygen. The last three chapters deal with the equivalent processes of photosystem I. The whole volume tells the story of a natural system of incredible ingenuity and complexity, but which as the chapters unfold, is seen to be within our grasp and eventual ability to comprehend

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Topics in Photosynthesis, Volume 11, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword, Page v, George Porter
Preface, Pages vii-viii, J. Barber
List of contributors, Pages ix-x
Obituary - Robert (Robin) Hill, F.R.S. (1899–1991), Pages xi-xii, F.R. Whatley FRS
Obituary - Mordhay Avron (1931–1991), Pages xiii-xv, André Jagendorf, Zippora Gromet-Elhanan
Obituary - Don Charles DeVault (1915–1990), Pages xvi-xviii, Michael Seibert
Chapter 1 - An introduction to plant and bacterial photosystems, Pages 1-15, R. COGDELL, R. MALKIN
Chapter 2 - Thermodynamics of light energy conversion, Pages 17-43, L.N. BELL, N.D. GUDKOV
Chapter 3 - Energy transfer and trapping in photosystem II, Pages 45-99, G. RENGER
Chapter 4 - The molecular biology of photosystem II, Pages 101-177, JEANNE MARIE ERICKSON, JEAN-DAVID ROCHAIX
Chapter 5 - Oxygen evolution, Pages 179-229, A.W. RUTHERFORD, J.-L. ZIMMERMANN, A. BOUSSAC
Chapter 6 - Protein engineering of photosystem II, Pages 231-257, HIMADRI B. PAKRASI, WIM F.J. VERMAAS
Chapter 7 - Thermoluminescence in the study of photosystem II, Pages 259-294, IMRE VASS, YORINAO INOUE
Chapter 8 - Dynamics of photosystem II: mechanism of photoinhibition and recovery processes, Pages 295-348, ITZHAK OHAD, ONDRĚJ PRÁŠIL, NOAM ADIR
Chapter 9 - Herbicides of photosystem II, Pages 349-408, WALTER OETTMEIER
Chapter 10 - Heat shock proteins in plants: an approach to understanding the function of plastid heat shock proteins, Pages 409-442, ELISABETH KRUSE, KLAUS KLOPPSTECH
Chapter 11 - Photosystem I: composition, organization and structure, Pages 443-469, ORNA ALMOG, GIL SHOHAM, RACHEL NECHUSHTAI
Chapter 12 - Energy transfer and trapping in photosystem I, Pages 471-499, P. SETIF
Chapter 13 - Molecular biology of photosystem I, Pages 501-549, DONALD A. BRYANT
Subject index, Pages 551-557