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Photomorphogenesis in Plants

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. R. E. Kendrick

    1. Department of Plant Physiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
      Laboratory for Photoperception and Signal Transduction, Frontier Research Program, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako City, Saitama, Japan

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  2. G. H. M. Kronenberg

    1. Department of Plant Physiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXIV
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Lars Olof Björn
      Pages 3-14

  3. Quantification of light

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Quantification of light

      • Lars Olof Björn, Thomas C. Vogelmann
      Pages 17-25

  4. Instrumentation in photomorphogenesis research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Instrumentation in photomorphogenesis research

      • Masaki Furuya, Yasunori Inoue
      Pages 29-47

  5. Phytochrome

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. The phytochrome chromophore

      • Wolfhart Rüdiger, Fritz Thümmler
      Pages 51-69

    3. Phytochrome genes and their expression

      • Peter H. Quail
      Pages 71-104

    4. Assembly and properties of holophytochrome

      • Masaki Furuya, Pill-Soon Song
      Pages 105-140

    5. Phytochrome degradation

      • Richard D. Vierstra
      Pages 141-162

    6. Distribution and localization of phytochrome within the plant

      • Lee H. Pratt
      Pages 163-185

    7. Signal transduction in phytochrome responses

      • Stanley J. Roux
      Pages 187-209

    8. The physiology of phytochrome action

      • Alberto L. Mancinelli
      Pages 211-269

    9. The use of transgenic plants to examine phytochrome structure/function

      • Joel R. Cherry, Richard D. Vierstra
      Pages 271-297

  6. Blue-light and UV receptors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299
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    2. Diversity of photoreceptors

      • Horst Senger, Werner Schmidt
      Pages 301-325

    3. Properties and transduction chains of the UV and blue light photoreceptors

      • Benjamin A. Horwitz
      Pages 327-350

  7. Coaction between pigment systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 351-351
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About this book

It is perhaps not surprising that plants have evolved a mechanism to sense the light environment about them and to modify growth for optimal use of the available `life-giving' light. Green plants, and ultimately all forms of life, depend on the energy of sunlight fixed during photosynthesis. Unlike animals that use behaviour to find food, sedentary plants use physiology to optimize their growth and development for light absorption. By appreciating the quality, quantity, direction and duration of light, plants can control such complex processes as germination, growth and flowering. To perceive the light environment several receptor pigments have evolved, including the red/far-red reversible phytochrome and the blue/UV-absorbing photoreceptors (Part 1). The quantification of light (Part 2) and importance of instrumentation for photomorphogenesis research are introduced in Part 3. Isolation and characterization of phytochrome is a classic example of how photobiological techniques can predict the nature of an unknown photoreceptor. Current knowledge of the phytochrome photoreceptor family is given in Part 4 and that of blue/UV receptors in Part 5. Part 6 deals with the coaction of photoreceptors. The light environment and its perception is addressed in Part 7. Molecular and genetic approaches and the photoregulation of gene expression compose Part 8. Part 9 contains further selected topics: photomodulation of growth phototropism, photobiology of stomatal movements, photomovement, photocontrol of flavonoid biosynthesis, photobiology of fungi and photobiology of ferns.
The 28 chapters written by leading experts from Europe, Israel, Japan and the USA, provide an advanced treatise on the exciting and rapidly developing field of plant photomorphogenesis.

Reviews

` The book is of the highest scientific standard and can be recommended to all researchers in plant photobiology as well as to graduate and postgraduate students. '
Biologia Plantarum 36(4), 1994

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Plant Physiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    R. E. Kendrick, G. H. M. Kronenberg

  • Laboratory for Photoperception and Signal Transduction, Frontier Research Program, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako City, Saitama, Japan

    R. E. Kendrick

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Photomorphogenesis in Plants

  • Editors: R. E. Kendrick, G. H. M. Kronenberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1884-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2550-5Due: 30 November 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1884-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXXIV, 828

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology

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