Progress in Photosynthesis Research: Volume 4 Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress on Photosynthesis Providence, Rhode Island, USA, August 10–15, 1986

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVII
Environmental Stress and Photosynthesis....Pages 1-10
High-Irradiance Stress in Higher Plants and Interaction with other Stress Factors....Pages 11-18
Photoinhibition of Photosynthesis Studies on Mechanisms of Damage and Protection in Chloroplasts....Pages 19-26
Alteration of Electron Flow around P 680 : The Effect on Photoinhibition....Pages 27-30
Weak Light Photoinhibition of PSII and its Light Dependent Recovery....Pages 31-34
Chlorophyll Photobleaching is Dependent on Photosystem II Inhibition....Pages 35-38
Photoinhibition at Chilling Temperatures in Intact Leaves and Isolated Chloroplasts of Barley....Pages 39-42
Effects of Bicarbonate on Photoinhibition in Isolated Pea Chloroplasts....Pages 43-46
Modification of the Photochemical Apparatus in Maize by Photoinhibitory Stress at Low Temperature....Pages 47-50
Photoinhibitory Stress Causes Accumulation of a 31 Kilodalton Protein in the Chloroplast Light-harvesting Apparatus....Pages 51-54
The Kinetics of Photosystem 2 Photoinactivation in Whole Cells, Thylakoids and PS2 Particles of a Thermophilic Blue Green Alga Synechococcus Elongatus....Pages 55-58
Photoinhibition of Isolated Chloroplasts and Protoplasts....Pages 59-62
Epr Analysis of Photosystem I Degradation During Photoinhibition of Isolated Chloroplast Membranes....Pages 63-66
A High CO 2 -Requiring Mutant of Arabidopsis Thaliana that Displays Photooxidation in Air....Pages 67-70
Inhibition of Photosystem 2 by Thylakoid Membrane Phosphorylation....Pages 71-74
Can Protein Phosphorylation Alleviate Photoinhibition of Thylakoid Photochemical Activities?....Pages 75-78
Heat Shock Proteins Partially Protect Against Photoinhibition of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii During Heat Shock....Pages 79-85
Light Regulation of Recovery from Photoinhibition....Pages 87-90
Photoinhibition and Recovery in Intact Leaves of Pisum Sativum Grown in High and Low Light Intensity....Pages 91-94
Involvement of the Q B Binding Protein (M r 32000) in the Adaptation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus to Light Intensity....Pages 95-98
Comparative Studies on Effects of Low Temperature on Chlorophyll Fluorescence Induction Kinetics and Photochemcal Activities of Cucumber and Winter Wheat....Pages 99-102
Effect of Chilling on the Activity of Enzymes of the Photosynthetic Carbon Reduction Cycle....Pages 103-106
Stress Resistance of Thylakoids: Mechanical Freeze-Thaw Damage and Effects of Frost Hardening....Pages 107-110
Acclimation of Light-Harvesting and Light-Utilization Capacities in Response to Growth Temperature....Pages 111-114
Thylakoid Membrane Composition and Photoinactivation of CO 2 Fixation in Moss Protonemata as Influenced by the Growth Temperature....Pages 115-118
Phosphatidylglycerol Content and Composition Influence in Vitro Oligomerization of Purified Lhcii From Winter Rye....Pages 119-122
3-Transhexadecenoic Acid Content and Lhcii Organization During Chloroplast Biogenesis at Low Temperature....Pages 123-125
In Vivo Low Temperature-Induced Decrease in 3-Transhexadecenoic Acid Influences Oligomerization of LHCII....Pages 127-130
Chilling Dependent Photoinhibition of Photosynthetic CO 2 Uptake....Pages 131-138
Damage to Maize Photosynthesis in the Field During Periods When Chilling is Combined With High Photon Fluxes....Pages 139-142
A Chloroplast Heat Shock Protein Has Homology to Cytoplasmic Heat Shock Proteins....Pages 143-145
Magnesium and the Acclimation of Photosynthesis to Low Leaf Water Potentials....Pages 147-151
 In Situ Measurements of the Inhibitory Effects of Low Leaf Water Potentials on Photophosphorylation....Pages 153-156
Effects of Water Stress on in Vivo Photosynthetic Biochemistry (Maximum Photosynthesis, Quantum Yield and 77 K Fluorescence)....Pages 157-160
Contribution of Osmotic Adjustment to the Maintenance of Photosynthesis during Water Stress....Pages 161-168
Photosynthesis under Osmotic Stress. A Possible Cause of the Osmotic Stress Induced Susceptibility to Photoinhibition....Pages 169-172
Effect of High Leaf K + on Gas Exchange of Water Stressed Wheat Leaves....Pages 173-176
Solute Accumulation in Chloroplasts during in situ Water Stress....Pages 177-180
Water-Stress Effects on CO 2 Exchange in Two Grapevine Cultivars....Pages 181-184
Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) as a Possible Endogenic Protecting Agent of PEP Using Enzymes against Inactivation by Salt....Pages 185-188
Targets of Salinity Stress in Spinach....Pages 189-192
The Response of Dunaliella to Salt Stress: A Comparison of Effects on Photosynthesis, and on the Intracellular Levels of the Osmoregulatory Solute Glycerol, the Adenine Nucleotides and the Pyridine Nucleotides....Pages 193-196
Effects of Long-Term and Transient Changes in Salinity on Photosynthesis, Leaf Demography and Growth in Plantago Maritima L.....Pages 197-200
Photosynthetic Pigment Composition of Higher Plants Grown under Iron Stress....Pages 201-204
Responses of Photosynthesis and Leaf Angle to Water and Nutrient Stress in Soybean....Pages 205-208
Genetic Variation in the Relationship between Photosynthetic CO 2 Assimilation Rate and Stomatal Conductance to Water Loss....Pages 209-212
The Measurement and Significance of CO 2 -Gas Exchange Transients in Leaves....Pages 213-220
A Model Predicting Stomatal Conductance and its Contribution to the Control of Photosynthesis under Different Environmental Conditions....Pages 221-224
A General Expression for the Control of the Rate of Photosynthetic CO 2 Fixation by Stomata, the Boundary Layer and Radiation Exchange....Pages 225-228
Gas Exchange of Flag Leaves and Ears of Wheat. Interpretation on the Basis of a Photosynthesis Model....Pages 229-232
Characteristics of the CO 2 Exchange of Wheat Ears....Pages 233-236
Transients of the O 2 Gas-Exchange of Cryptocoryne Ciliata: The Response to Different pH during Cultivation....Pages 237-240
An Artificial Leaf for Checking Accuracy in the Estimation of Internal Partial Pressure of CO 2 in Gas-Exchange Measurement....Pages 241-243
Gas Exchange Studies of Carboxylation Kinetics in Intact Leaves....Pages 245-252
Effects of Short-Term and Long-Term Exposures to Varying CO 2 Concentrations on Soybean Photosynthesis....Pages 253-256
Photosynthetic Utilization of Lightflecks by Tropical Forest Plants....Pages 257-260
A Model of Photosynthesis for Isobilateral Leaves Incorporating Biochemical Constraints and the Light Gradient within the Leaf....Pages 261-264
A Minireview: Comparative Biochemistry of Photosynthesis in Palisade Cells, Spongy Cells, and Guard Cells of C 3 Leaves....Pages 265-272
The Guard Cell Chloroplast: Properties and Function....Pages 273-280
Carboxylation of Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate Inhibited after Application of the Phytohormone, Abscisic Acid, to Whole Leaves of Xanthium Strumarium (C 3 ) and Zea mays (C 4 )....Pages 281-281
The Ratio of RuBP Carboxylase to Oxygenase Activity and Photosynthetic Gas Exchange....Pages 283-288
Inorganic Carbon Fluxes and Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria — A Quantitative Model....Pages 289-296
A Model for Inorganic Carbon Accumulation in Cyanobacteria....Pages 297-300
The Mechanism of Inorganic Carbon Uptake by Cyanobacteria: Energization and Activation by Light....Pages 301-307
Immunochemical Studies on the Major Proteins in Cytoplasmic Membranes of Cyanobacteria....Pages 309-312
The Role of Carbonic Anhydrase in the Inorganic Carbon Concentrating System of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ....Pages 313-316
Regulation of Carbonic Anhydrase Expression in Chlamydomonas ....Pages 317-324
Photosynthetic Characteristics of Several High-CO 2 -Requiring Mutants of Chlamydomonas ....Pages 325-328
Diffusion and Active Transport of Inorganic Carbon Species in Freshwater and Marine Macroalgae....Pages 329-332
Photosynthetic Responses to Oxygen and Inorganic Carbon of Low- and High-CO 2 -Grown Cells of Chara Corallina ....Pages 333-340
Inorganic Carbon Concentrating Systems from an Environmental Perspective....Pages 341-344
Evidence for Bicarbonate Active Transport in Elodea Nuttallii ....Pages 345-352
Evidence of a CO 2 -Concentrating Mechanism in C 4 and Some C 3 -C 4 Intermediate Flaveria Species....Pages 353-356
Variation in Photosynthetic Characteristics among Triticum Species and Attempts to Exploit it in Breeding....Pages 357-360
Photosynthesis, Photosynthate Partitioning, and Productivity of Temperate Forage Legumes....Pages 361-368
Barriers to Increasing Crop Productivity by Genetic Improvement in Photosynthesis....Pages 369-376
Genetic Control of Photosynthesis in Relation to Growth of Pea ( Pisum sativum L.) Plants....Pages 377-384
Effect of Potassium on Photosynthetic Apparatus and Yield Components of Wheat Plant....Pages 385-391
Relationship between Certain Photosynthetic Parameters and Yield in Different Wheat Cultivars....Pages 393-393
Growth Kinetics and Photosynthetic O 2 -Evolution by Chlorella Immobilized in Ca-Alginate....Pages 395-398
Effect of Growth Regulators on the Growth, Chlorophyll Development and Productivity of Euphorbia Lathyris L: A Hydrocarbon Yielding Plant....Pages 399-402
Sugar Beet Factory Wastewater Treatment in a High Rate Oxidation Pond....Pages 403-406
Photosynthetic Capacity, Leaf Development, Growth and Productivity of Sugar Beet under Optimal Nitrogen Supply....Pages 407-410
Equations to Define Canopy Photosynthesis from Quantum Efficiency, Maximum Leaf Rate, Light Extinction, Leaf Area Index, and Photon Flux Density....Pages 411-414
Effects of CO 2 Enrichment Preconditioning on Chlorophylls Contents and Photosynthetic CO 2 Exchange in Tomato Leaves....Pages 415-418
Regulation of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis. Genetics and Biochemistry of Delta-Aminolevulinate Synthesis....Pages 419-421
Biosynthetic Precursors of δ-Aminolevulinic Acid in Plants and Algae....Pages 423-430
Formation of δ-aminolevulinic Acid from Glutamic Acid in Algal Extracts: Fractionation of Activities and Biological Constraints on the RNA Requirement....Pages 431-434
Non Equivalence of Glutamic and δ-Aminolevulinic Acids as Substrates for Protochlorophyllide and Chlorophyll Biosynthesis in Darkness....Pages 435-438
Two Pathways of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Biosynthesis Destined for Formation of Bacteriochlorophylls in Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 439-443
Cloning and Expression of a Gene Complementing 5-Aminolevulinate Dehydratase Deletion in E. Coli Strain SHSP3....Pages 445-448
Subcellular Localisation of Porphyrin Synthesis Enzymes in Pea and Arum....Pages 449-452
Oxidation of Protoporphyrinogen to Protoporphyrin, a Step in Chlorophyll and Heme Biosynthesis: Purification and Partial Characterization of the Enzyme from Barley Mitochondria and Etioplasts....Pages 453-456
Chlorophyll Synthetase and its Implication for Regulation of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis....Pages 457-460
Photoreactions in Chloroplast Development....Pages 461-467
The Purification and Properties of Three Latter-Stage Enzymes of Chlorophyll Synthesis....Pages 469-474
Protochlorophyllide Reduction in Anabaena....Pages 475-482
Comparison of Chlorophyll Accumulation and 14 C-ala Incorporation into Chlorophyll in Dark and Light in Green Barley....Pages 483-486
Chlorophyll RC I, its Structure, Function and Biosynthesis....Pages 487-490
Tetrypyrrole Turnover in Plants....Pages 491-498
Alterations in Photosynthetic Pigment Synthesis in Tissue Cultured Tobacco Callus....Pages 499-502
A Method for Determining Phycocyanin and Chlorophyll Concentrations in Whole Cell Suspensions of Cyanidium Caldarium ....Pages 503-506
Light Regulation of Plastid Gene Expression during Chloroplast Biogenesis in Barley; Evidence for Regulation of Translation and Post-Transcriptional Determination of mRNA Levels....Pages 507-510
Photoregulation of Maize Plastid Genes during Light-Induced Development....Pages 511-518
Light Regulation of Genes for the Large and Small Subunits of Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase in Tobacco....Pages 519-526
Light Regulation and Localization of OEC-33 in Maize....Pages 527-530
Protochlorophyllide Reductase and the Failure of Corn to Acclimate to Low Irradiances....Pages 531-534
Chloroplast Development and Regulation of LHCP-Gene Expression in Greening Cultured Soybean Cells....Pages 535-538
Accumulation and Degradation of P700-Chlorophyll a Protein, Complex, Plastocyanin, and Cytochrome b 6 / f Complex....Pages 539-542
Biosynthesis of Chloroplast Ribosomal Components....Pages 543-546
Acclimation of Rubisco Activity and Quantity to Different Irradiances within a Same Tobacco Leaf. Differential Expression in SSU and LSU mRNA....Pages 547-551
Pyruvate, Pi Dikinase mRNAs of Maize....Pages 553-556
Changes in the Appearance of Ribulose-1.5-Bisphosphate-Carboxylase (RuBPCase) during Senescence of Mustard Cotyledons....Pages 557-560
Translational Regulation of Light-Induced Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase Gene Expression in Amaranth....Pages 561-564
Transport and Processing of Ferredoxin and Plastocyanin: A Thylakoid-Specific Processing Enzyme....Pages 565-568
Some Requirements for the Insertion of the Precursor of Apoproteins of Lemna Light-Harvesting Complex II into Barley Thylakoids....Pages 569-572
Synthesis of Chlorophyll-Binding Polypeptides during Greening of Etiolated Barley....Pages 573-576
Evidence for Translational Regulation of Euglena Protein Synthesis by Light....Pages 577-580
Synthesis of Chloroplast Proteins in Chlamydomonas....Pages 581-584
Synthesis of Polypeptides Associated with PSI by the Isolated Sorghum Vulgare Chloroplasts....Pages 585-588
 In Vitro Synthesis of Heat Shock Proteins by Chloroplasts....Pages 589-592
Development of the Photosystem I Light-Harvesting Apparatus in Wheat....Pages 593-596
A Chlorophyll B Deficient Mutant of Wheat with an Altered Photoadaptation Response....Pages 597-600
 Euglena Ferredoxin Nadp Reductase, LHCP Apoprotein, and Their Photocontrol During Chloroplast Development....Pages 601-604
Dynamic Morphological Changes of Proplastids and Mitochondria in Dark-Organotrophically Grown Cells of Euglena Gracilis Transferred to an Inorganic Medium....Pages 605-608
Photoreduction of NADP + During Early Greening of Etiolated Bean Leaves....Pages 609-612
Chloroplast Genes for Photosynthetic Membrane Components....Pages 613-616
Characterisation of Genes for Components of Photosystem II in Wheat Chloroplast DNA....Pages 617-624
Biogenesis of Photosystem II Complex in Spinach Chloroplasts....Pages 625-628
Photosystem II Biogenesis: Roles of Nuclear Gene Products....Pages 629-636
Chloroplast Gene Expression in Chloroplast Ribosome-Deficient Mutants of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii....Pages 637-644
A Gene Cluster in the Z. Mays Plastid Genome is Homologous to Part of the S10 Operon of E. COLI ....Pages 645-648
Evolution of the 5′ and 3′ Regions Flanking the tRNA HIS Gug Gene in the Dicot Chloroplast Genome: The Role of Insertions/Deletions....Pages 649-652
Characterization Of The B6/F Complex Subunits and Studies On The LHC-Kinase In Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Using Mutant Strains Altered In The B6/F Complex....Pages 653-653
Molecular Cloning and Nucleotide Sequences of the Genes Encoding Cytochrome B-559 from the Cyanelle Genome of Cyanophora Chapaudoxa ....Pages 655-658
Molecular Characterization of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii , ac-208: A Plastocyanin-Less Mutant....Pages 659-662
The Gene for the P 700 -Chlorophyll a Protein in Euglena Gracilis is Interrupted by Three Introns....Pages 663-666
Structural and Functional Relatedness of Chromophytic and Rhodophytic RuBP Carboxylase Enzymes....Pages 667-670
Initial Characterization of Mutator -Induced Photosythesis Mutations....Pages 671-674
Failure to Process the D1 Protein Inhibits the Oxidizing Side of PSII but not the Reaction Center or Reducing Side Reactions: Analysis of the LF-1 Mutant of Scenedesmus....Pages 675-678
DNA Biosynthesis in Chloroplasts and Its Regulation: Studies on Isolated Chloroplasts and Chloroplast Extracts....Pages 679-682
Chloroplast-Based In Vitro Translation System....Pages 683-686
Regulation of Gene Expression and Assembly of the Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes....Pages 687-690
Analysis of Transcription Through the Rhodobacter Capsulatus puf Operon Using a Translational Fusion of pufM to the E. Coli LacZ Gene....Pages 691-697
Molecular Genetics of C-type Cytochromes and of Ubiquinol-Cytochrome C 2 Oxidoreductase of Rhodopseudomonas Capsulata ....Pages 699-705
Molecular Genetics of the Ubiquinol: Cytochrome C 2 Oxidoreductase of Rhodopseudomonas Capsulata ....Pages 707-712
Oxygen and Light Regulation of Expression of Genes for Light Harvesting (LH-I, LH-II), Reaction Center (RC-L, RC-M, RC-H), Pigment Biosynthesis and a Transcriptional Role in the Protective, Function of Carotenoids in Rhodobacter Capsulatus ....Pages 713-716
The Role of the Light-harvesting I Antenna Proteins in the Correct Insertion of the Photochemical Reaction Center of Rhodobacter Capsulatus and Rhodobacter Sphaeroides ....Pages 717-720
Genetic and DNA Sequence Analysis of a Rhodobacter Capsulatus Mutant Unable to Properly Insert Photochemical Reaction Centers into the Membrane....Pages 721-724
Assembly of Photosynthetic Units in Membranes of Rhodobacter Sphaeroides During a Down-Shift in Light Intensity....Pages 725-728
Cloning and Oxygen Regulated Expression of Genes Coding for the Reaction Centre and Light Harvesting Polypeptides of Rhodopseudomonas Sphaeroides ....Pages 729-732
Cloning and Oxygen Regulated Expression of Genes for the Bacteriochlorophyll Biosynthetic Pathway in Rhodopseudomonas Sphaeroides ....Pages 733-736
Isolation of Genes Encoding the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Chloroflexus ....Pages 737-740
Oxygen Regulation of Cytochrome C554 Synthesis in Chloroflexus....Pages 741-744
The Cyanobacterial Photosynthetic Apparatus: A Structural and Functional Analysis Employing Molecular Genetics....Pages 745-748
Genes with Mutations Causing Herbicide Resistance from the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002....Pages 749-755
The Effects of Light Intensity and Nitrogen Starvation on the Phycocyanin Promoter in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002....Pages 757-760
Organization of the Genes Encoding Phycoerythrin and the Two Differentially Expressed Phycocyanins in the Cyanobacterium Pseudanabaena PCC 7409....Pages 761-764
Molecular Cloning and Preliminary Characterization of a recA Gene from the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002....Pages 765-768
Genetic Analysis of a Cyanobacterial Gene Encoding a Membrane Protein Which Accumulates Under Iron Stress....Pages 769-772
Cloning and Characterization of a Gene Encoding an Iron-Regulated Membrane Protein in Anacystis Nidulans R2....Pages 773-776
The Construction of Hybrid Cloning Vectors and the Improvement of Transformation Efficiency in the Cyanobacteria, Anacystis Nidulans R2 and A . Nidulans R2-SPC....Pages 777-780
Differential Effects of Iron and Chlorophyll in the Control of Membrane Synthesis in Anacystis Nidulans ....Pages 781-784
Polypeptide Rapid Turnover and Photosystem II Recovery from Calcium Stress in Anacystis Nidulans ....Pages 785-788
Isolation and Sequence of the Gene for Ferredoxin I from the Cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120....Pages 789-792
Isolation And Nucleotide Sequence Analysis of the Ferredoxin Gene from the Cyanobacterium Anacystis Nidulans R2....Pages 793-795
Cyanobacterial Genes for the Cytochrome B6-F Complex: Sequence Homology with Plastid and Bacterial Genes but Divergence of Operon Structure....Pages 797-800
Site-Directed Mutagenesis in the Photosystem II Gene psbD , Encoding the D2 Protein....Pages 801-803
Nucleotide Sequences of Both psbD Genes from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803....Pages 805-808
Genetically Engineered Cytochrome B559 Mutants of the Cyanobacterium, Synechocystis 6803....Pages 809-812
Phycocyanin Genes in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6701 and a Potential Gene Rearrangement in a Pigment Variant....Pages 813-816
Diuron Resistance in the PSBA Multigene Family of Anacystis Nidulans R2 ....Pages 817-820
Functioning of Photosystem II in Mutant Strains of the Cyanobacterium Anacystis Nidulans R2....Pages 821-824
Contiguous NIF Gene Organization in a Heterocystous Cyanobacterium....Pages 825-828
Molecular Cloning of a recA-Like Gene from the Cyanobacterium Anabaena Variabilis ....Pages 829-832
Cyanobacterial Transformation: Expression of Col E1 Plasmids in Anacystis Nidulans 6301....Pages 833-836
Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of Cyanobacteria Defective in Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution....Pages 837-840
Back Matter....Pages 841-844
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