Plant Molecular Biology: NATO Science Series A:, cartea 140

Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase.- Three-dimensional structure of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum.- Function of active-site residues of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase.- Partial reactions of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase: Their utility in the study of mutant enzymes.- The Rubisco large subunit binding protein — a molecular chaperone?.- Phytochrome and Phytochrome Regulated Transcription.- The molecular photophysiology of greening in etiolated pea seedlings.- Light-dependent regulation of gene expression in barley.- Chloroplast Genes and Polypeptides.- Split genes and cis/trans splicing in tobacco chloroplasts.- Chloroplast-specific import and routing of proteins.- Cell-specific expression of LHCII and the organisation of the photosynthetic reaction centers in chloroplast thylakoids.- Synthesis of electron transfer components of the photosynthetic apparatus.- Mitochondrial Genes.- Structure and transcription of the Oenothera mitochondrial genome.- The beta subunit of a plant mitochondrial ATP synthase has a presequence involved in mitochondrial targeting.- tRNA and Transcription of Organelle DNA.- Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of chloroplast gene expression.- Localization of tRNA genes on maize and wheat mitochondrial genomes.- Transposons.- Transposable elements and their role in plant evolution.- Effects of transposable elements on spatial patterns of gene expression in Antirrhinum majus.- Molecular genetic analysis of sequences homologous to mutator transposable elements in non-mutator maize stocks.- Cin4, a retrotransposon-like element in Zea mays.- Breeding by Somatic Hybridization.- Cybrids in Nicotiana, Solanum and Citrus: Isolation and characterization of plastome mutants:Pre-fusion treatments, selection and analysis of cybrids.- Interspecific somatic fusions between Solanum brevidens and S. tuberosum.- Brassica cybrids and their utility in plant breeding.- Selection and characterization of carrot somatic hybrids.- Interesting Pathways I.- Candidate for a sexual reproduction specific pathway in plants: Putrescine to GABA via hydroxycinnamic amide intermediates.- Hydroxycinnamic acid amides, hypersensitivity, flowering and sexual organogenesis in plants.- Molecular structure of plant fatty acid synthesis enzymes.- Aspects of glutathione function and metabolism in plants.- Interesting Pathways II.- Relationship between anaerobic inducibility and tissue-specific expression for the maize anaerobic genes.- Barley raincoats: biosynthesis and genetics.- Stimulation of phenylpropanoid pathways by environmental factors.- A phospho-oligosaccharide synthase in developing maize endosperms.- Herbicide Resistance.- Acetolactate synthase, the target enzyme of the sulfonylurea herbicides.- Expression of coat protein genes in transgenic plants confers protection against alfalfa mosaic virus, cucumber mosaic virus and potato virus X.- Mutations resistant to photosystem II herbicides.- Diuron resistance in the psbA multigene family of Synechococcus PCC7942.- Stress Reactions.- A possible role for 3? sequences of the wound-inducible potato proteinase inhibitor IIK gene in regulating gene expression.- Heat stress: expression and structure of heat shock protein genes.- Tissue specificity and dynamics of disease resistance responses in plants.- The response to anaerobic stress: transcriptional regulation of genes for anaerobically induced proteins.- Virus.- Molecular biology and molecular genetics of plant bromoviruses.- The use of full-length DNA copies inthe study of the expression and replication of the RNA genome of cowpea mosaic virus.- The life cycle of cauliflower mosaic virus.- Agroinfection of Zea mays with maize streak virus DNA.- Viroids.- Structural properties of viroid replicative intermediates and of satellite RNAs of CMV.- Mutational analysis of potato spindle tuber viroid.- Non-enzymatic cleavage and ligation of a plant satellite RNA.- Nitrogen Fixation.- Evolution of the leghemoglobins.- Towards nodulin function and nodulin gene regulation.- Analysis of the mechanism of nod gene regulation in Rhizobium leguminosarum.- Plant-bacterial signalling in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.- Agrobacterium.- The agrobacterium system and its applications.- Ri T-DNA from Agrobacterium rhizogenes, a semiochemical that alters morphological plasticity.- The role of virulence regulatory loci in determining Agrobacterium host range.- Transgenic Plants.- Multiple positive and negative sequence elements mediate the light-induced expression of a plant gene.- From Molecular Biology to Useful Plants.- Structure and regulation of the maize suppressor-mutator transposable element.- The photosynthetic reaction center from the purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis and its relevance to photosystem II.- Missing links from molecular biology to useful plants.- Abstracts of Posters.- Phytochrome regulation of mRNA levels of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase and light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein in etiolated rye seedlings (Secale cereale).- Author Index.