The Chloroplast - Interactions with the Environment (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

Chloroplasts are vital for life as we know it. At the leaf cell level, it is common knowledge that a chloroplast interacts with its surroundings - but this knowledge is often limited to the benefits of oxygenic photosynthesis and that chloroplasts provide reduced carbon, nitrogen and sulphur. This book presents the intricate interplay between chloroplasts and their immediate and more distant environments. The topic is explored in chapters covering aspects of evolution, the chloroplast/cytoplasm barrier, transport, division, motility and bidirectional signalling. Taken together, the contributed chapters provide an exciting insight into the complexity of how chloroplast functions are related to cellular and plant-level functions. The recent rapid advances in the presented research areas, largely made possible by the development of molecular techniques and genetic screens of an increasing number of plant model systems, make this interaction a topical issue.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Plant Cell Monographs, 13
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2009
Editors:	Anna Stina Sandelius • Henrik Aronsson
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
Edition:	2009 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-68692-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Cellular biology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant physiology > General
LSN:	3-540-68692-4
Barcode:	9783540686927

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