The Metabolism, Structure, and Function of Plant Lipids

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Multiple Roles for Plant Sterols....Pages 3-9
Stereochemistry of Monoterpene Cyclization....Pages 11-18
Diterpenes - The Gibberellin Biosynthetic Pathway in Zea Mays ....Pages 19-27
Synthesis of Plastoquinone-9, α-Tocopherol and Phylloquinone (Vitamin K 1 ) and Its Integration in Chloroplast Carbon Metabolism of Higher Plants....Pages 29-36
Carotenoid Biosynthesis and Carotenogenic Enzymes in Plastids....Pages 37-43
Cell Walls and Secondary Products as Obstacles to Plant Enzyme Isolation: Problems and Solutions, Including a Simple Liquid-Nitrogen Homogenizer for Bulk Tissue Extraction....Pages 45-52
Developmental Regulation of Sterol and Pentacyclic Triterpene Biosynthesis and Composition: A Correlation with Sorghum Floral Initiation....Pages 53-56
Effect of Intracellular Sterol Concentration on Sterol Esterification in Yeast....Pages 57-61
Functional Organization of Carotenoids and Prenylquinones in the Photosynthetic Membrane....Pages 63-73
Arachidonic and Eicosapentaenoic Acids, Glucans and Calcium as Regulators of Resistance to a Plant Disease....Pages 75-82
Presence of Unusually High Levels of Cholesterol in the Shoot-Apices of Flowering Plants....Pages 83-85
Changes in Sterol Biosynthesis from [2- 14 C]Mevalonic Acid During Development of Cucurbita maxima Seedlings....Pages 87-89
Inhibition of Growth of Celery Cells by Paclobutrazol and Its Reversal by Added Sterols....Pages 91-93
The Steryl Esters of Higher Plants....Pages 95-102
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Fungal Bioregulators of Sterol Biosynthesis....Pages 103-105
A Comparison of Sterol and Long Chain Fatty Alcohol Biosynthesis in Sorghum Bicolor ....Pages 107-110
Regulation of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Tapped Latex....Pages 111-113
Triterpenoid Biosynthesis in Euphorbia Lathyris ....Pages 115-118
Phytosterol Structure and Composition in the Chemosystematics of the Caryophyllales....Pages 119-121
Biosynthesis of Diterpene Phytoalexin Precursors in Cell-free Extracts of Rice....Pages 123-125
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Endogenous Gibberellins in Wheat Shoots....Pages 127-129
Molecular Associations in Lipid-carotenoid Monolayers....Pages 131-133
Separation and Identification of Carotenoid-esters in Red Pepper /Capsicum Annuum/ During Ripening....Pages 135-138
On the Biosynthesis of Fragrance Compounds in Ambrette ( Hibiscus abelmoschus ) Seeds....Pages 139-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Structural and Dynamic Aspects of Membrane Lipids....Pages 145-152
Lipid Saturation by Catalytic Hydrogenation and Its Effect on Membrane Structure and Function....Pages 153-159
Spatial Organization and Functional Roles of Acyl Lipids in Thylakoid Membranes....Pages 161-168
Ultrastructural Studies on Plant Membranes....Pages 169-176
Evidences for Different Acyl Lipid Domains in Spinach and Oat Thylakoid Membranes Supporting Various Photosynthetic Functions....Pages 177-179
Phase Transition Behaviour of Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol....Pages 181-183
Is Monogalactosyl Diacylglycerol Involved in the Packaging of Light-harvesting Chlorophyll Proteins in the Thylakoid Membrane?....Pages 185-187
Mechanisms of Lipid-protein Binding in Photosynthetic Membranes....Pages 189-191
Lipid Molecular Species Composition of Granal and Stromal Lamellae....Pages 193-195
On the Function of Methyl-branched Chain Fatty Acids in Phospholipids of Cell Membranes of Higher Plants....Pages 197-200
Freezing Resistance and Lipid Changes in Choline-treated Wheat Seedlings....Pages 201-203
Drought Stress Effects on Root Cell Membranes....Pages 205-208
Manipulating Membrane Fatty Acid Compositions of Soybean Plants....Pages 209-211
Plasma Membrane Lipid Alterations Following Cold Acclimation: Possible Relevance to Freeze Tolerance....Pages 213-215
Plasma Membrane and Tonoplast Fractions Isolated from Spinach Leaves by Preparative Free Flow Electrophoresis: Effect of Photoinduction....Pages 217-219
Study of the Intracellular Transfer of Lipids to the Plasmalemma....Pages 221-224
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Ca 2+ and Inter-molecular Bridging of Membranal Phospholipids and Proteins....Pages 225-227
A Membrane-located, Calcium-/Calmodulin-activated Phospholipase Stimulated by Auxin....Pages 229-231
Regulation of Phospholipase Activity in Potato Leaves by Protein Phosphorylation-dephosphorylation and Proteolytic Activation....Pages 233-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Synthesis and Degradation of Lipid Bodies in the Scutella of Maize....Pages 239-246
On the Control of Fatty Acid Compositions of Plant Glycerolipids....Pages 247-254
Lipid Distribution and Synthesis Within the Plant Cell....Pages 255-263
Regulation of Phospholipid Headgroup Composition in Castor Bean Endosperm....Pages 265-272
Molecular Species of Phosphatidylcholine in Plants: Biosynthesis and Role in Oleate Desaturation or Freezing Resistance....Pages 273-282
Factors Affecting the Fatty Acid Composition of Phosphatidylglycerol as Related to Chilling Sensitivity in Higher Plants....Pages 283-291
On the Synthesis of Digalactosyldiacylglycerol in Chloroplasts, and Its Relation to Monogalactolipid Synthesis....Pages 293-300
Characterization of Galactosyltransferases in Spinach Chloroplast Envelope Membranes Applications of an Assay for UDPGal: Diacylglycerol Galactosyltransferase....Pages 301-303
Galactosyltransferase Activities in Intact Spinach Chloroplasts and Envelope Membranes....Pages 305-307
Biosynthesis of Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol in Chloroplasts of Higher Plants....Pages 309-311
Sulfolipid Synthesis by Isolated Intact Spinach Chloroplasts....Pages 313-315
Calcium Chloride Effect on Glycerolipids Metabolism in Olive Tree Leaf....Pages 317-319
Lipid Metabolism in Potato Leaf Disks: Effect of Calmodulin Antagonists....Pages 321-323
Localization and Properties of Cholinephosphate Cytidylyltransferase Activity in Castor Bean Endosperm....Pages 325-327
Choline Kinase Activity in Castor Bean Endosperm....Pages 329-331
The Control of CTP: Cholinephosphate Cytidylyltransferase in Pea Stems....Pages 333-336
Cocoa Butter Biosynthesis Cocoa Seed Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase: Studies on the Microsomal Bound Enzyme....Pages 337-339
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Substrate Specificity of Plant Lipases....Pages 341-343
Lipids from Rice Anthers....Pages 345-347
Lipids of Soybean Inoculated with Microsymbionts....Pages 349-351
Properties and in vitro Synthesis of Phospholipid Transfer Proteins....Pages 353-355
Galactolipid Synthesis in Isolated Pea Chloroplasts....Pages 357-359
Triacylglycerol Biosynthesis in Developing Cotyledons of Safflower ( Carthamus tinctorius )....Pages 361-364
Long-Chain Triacylglycerol Acyl Hydrolase (Lipase) Activity in Wheat Grain....Pages 365-367
Glycoprotein Nature of Lipolytic Acyl Hydrolases in Potato Tubers and Leaves....Pages 369-371
Correlation of Metabolic Rate Changes and Membrane Transitions Determined by Microcalorimetric Methods....Pages 373-375
Molecular Species Composition of Phosphatidylglycerol in Leaves of Camellia Species and Chilling Sensitivity....Pages 377-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
The Lipoxygenase Pathway....Pages 383-390
Enzymic Oxygenative-cleavage Reaction of Linolenic Acid in Leaves — Chloroplastic Lipoxygenase and Fatty Acid Hydroperoxide Lyase in Tea Leaves....Pages 391-398
Fatty Acid ß-Oxidation in Higher Plants....Pages 399-404
Desaturation of Fatty Acids on Complex-lipid Substrates....Pages 405-412
Rapid Enzymic Peroxidation of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Hydration of Wheat Milling Products....Pages 413-415
Action of Boron on Ethylene Production and Lipoxygenase Activity in Microsomes from Sunflower Cotyledons....Pages 417-419
Preliminary Characterization of Lipoxygenase from the Entomopathogenic Fungus Lagenidium giganteum ....Pages 421-423
Characterization of Tomato Lipoxygenase....Pages 425-428
Multiple Pathways of Linolenic Acid Synthesis Operate and Interact in Leaf Tissue....Pages 429-431
The Effect of Temperature on Desaturation of Galactolipid Fatty Acids in Brassica napus ....Pages 433-436
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Acyl Lipid Metabolism in Rhodotorula gracilis (CBS 3043) and the Effects of Methyl Sterculate on Fatty Acid Desaturation....Pages 437-440
Metabolism of Eicosapolyenoic Acid Lipids in Race Specific Interactions Between Phytophthora infestans and Potato....Pages 441-444
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
Modulation of Fatty Acid Synthesis in Plants by Thiolactomycin....Pages 447-454
Fatty Acid Synthesis in Developing Oilseeds....Pages 455-463
Medium and Long-chain Fatty Acid Synthesis....Pages 465-472
Cuticular Lipids in Plant-microbe Interactions....Pages 473-480
Plant Elongases....Pages 481-488
Genes, Elongases and Associated Enzyme Systems in Epicuticular Wax Synthesis....Pages 489-498
The Purification of Acetyl-CoA: Acyl Carrier Protein Transacylase from Brassica campestris Leaves....Pages 499-504
Regulation of Acetyl Coenzyme a Synthesis in Chloroplasts....Pages 505-507
Lipid Precursors in Plant Cells: The Problem of Acetyl CoA Generation for Plastid Fatty Acid Synthesis....Pages 509-511
Partial Purification and Characterization of Acetyl-CoA Synthetase from Mature Spinach Leaves....Pages 513-515
Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase and Biotin-containing Proteins in Carrot Somatic Embryogenesis....Pages 517-519
Pyruvate Reversal of S-Ethyl Dipropylcarbamothioate (EPTC) Inhibition of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex....Pages 521-523
Acyl-CoA Elongation Systems in Allium porrum Microsomes....Pages 525-527
Lipid Biosynthesis in Oil Palm Protoplasts....Pages 529-531
Identification of Proteins Associated with Changes in the Linolenate Content of Soybean Cotyledons....Pages 533-535
Acyltransferases in Developing Seeds of Oilseed Rape....Pages 537-539
Properties of Acyl-(Acyl-Carrier Protein): Glycerol-3-Phosphate Acyltransferase from Greening Squash Cotyledons....Pages 541-543
Lipid Biosynthesis in Epidermal, Guard and Mesophyll Cell Protoplasts from Leaves of Vicia faba L....Pages 545-547
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
Ontogenetic Variations in the Chemical Composition of Maize Surface Lipids....Pages 549-551
Mechanism of Biosynthesis of ß-Diketones and Alkan-2-OL Esters from Epicuticular Waxes....Pages 553-555
Epicuticular Wax Formation on Needles of Picea abies and Pinus Cembra ....Pages 557-559
Front Matter....Pages 561-561
Inter-organizational Collaboration: A Key to Success in Technological Innovation....Pages 563-570
The Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia - A Unique Research Unit....Pages 571-586
Biotechnology of Lipids in Industry....Pages 587-596
Front Matter....Pages 597-597
Little Known Facts of Plant Lipid Metabolism....Pages 599-601
Unique Characteristics of Cyanobacterial Glycerolipids....Pages 603-612
Lipids of Diatoms and of Halophilic Dunaliella Species....Pages 613-621
Metabolism of Galactolipids in Dunaliella Salina....Pages 623-629
Sterol Synthesis and Distribution and Algal Phylogeny....Pages 631-636
Lipids of Acetabularia Mediterranea. Composition, Cellular Localization and Biosynthesis....Pages 637-639
The Effect of Environmental Conditions on Fatty Acid Composition of the Red Alga Porphyridium Cruentum ....Pages 641-643
Nile Red: A Fluorophore Useful in Assessing the Relative Lipid Content of Single Cells....Pages 645-647
Lipid Accumulation in Silicon-Deficient Diatoms....Pages 649-651
Composition and Positional Distribution of Fatty Acids in Lipids from the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum ....Pages 653-655
Lipid Metabolism in Two Species of Red Marine Algae as Modified by Environmental Factors....Pages 657-660
Lipids of Chattonella Antiqua (Raphidophyceae)....Pages 661-663
Front Matter....Pages 665-665
The Future — Genetics/Biotechnology....Pages 667-667
Genetic Manipulation of Oilseed Quality....Pages 669-676
Front Matter....Pages 665-665
Biotechnology in the Improvement of the Oil Palm....Pages 677-681
Mutants of Arabidopsis Deficient in Fatty Acid Desaturation....Pages 683-688
Acyl Carrier Protein as a Probe of the Molecular Biology of Plant Fatty Acid Synthesis....Pages 689-695
Oil Seed Rape Acyl Carrier Protein (ACP) Protein and Gene Structure....Pages 697-700
Complete Amino Acid Sequence of Non-specific Lipid Transfer Protein from Castor Bean Seeds....Pages 701-703
A Possible Differential Role for Plant Acyl Carrier Protein Isoforms in Higher Plants....Pages 705-708
A Preliminary Characterization of Plant Holo-Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase....Pages 709-713
Physiological and Transformational Analyses of Lipoxygenases....Pages 715-717
Back Matter....Pages 719-724