PhotomovementThis volume emphasizes the involvement of all facets of biology in the analysis of environmentally controlled movement responses. This includes biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology and as an integral part of any approach to a closer understanding, physiology. The initial euphoria about molecular biology as the final solution for any problem has dwindled and the field agrees now that only the combined efforts of all facets of biology will at some day answer the question posed more than hundred years ago: "How can plants see?". One conclusion can be drawn from the current knowledge as summarized in this volume. The answer will most likely not be the same for all systems. |
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Contents
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Chapter 8 Algal eyes and their rhodopsin photoreceptors | 229 |
Chapter 9 Electrical events in photomovement of green flagellated algae | 245 |
entrainment of circadian rhythms | 449 |
Chapter 17 Photomovement in ciliates | 475 |
Chapter 18 Electrophysiology and light responses in Stentor and Blepharisma | 505 |
Chapter 19 Genetic analysis of phototaxis in Dictyostelium | 519 |
targeting of cytoskeleton and gene expression by light | 561 |
Chapter 21 Genetics of Phycomyces and its responses to light | 589 |
Chapter 22 Phototropism in Phycomyces | 621 |
Chapter 23 Phototropism in higher plants | 659 |
light detection pigments in Leptolyngbya Euglena Ochromonas Pelvetia | 281 |
Chapter 11 Phototaxis of Euglena gracilis flavins and pterins | 297 |
Chapter 12 Yellowlight sensing phototaxis in cryptomonad algae | 343 |
Chapter 13 Photostimulated effects on diatom motility | 375 |
Chapter 14 Photomovement of microorganisms in benthic and soil microenvironments | 403 |
Chapter 15 Phytochrome as an algal photoreceptor | 421 |
Chapter 24 Role of the microtubular cytoskeleton in coleoptile phototropism | 813 |
Chapter 25 Solar navigation by plants | 833 |
Chapter 26 Lightcontrolled chloroplast movement | 897 |
Keyword index | 925 |
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Page 338 - The two-component signaling pathway of bacterial chemotaxis: a molecular view of signal transduction by receptors, kinases, and adaptation enzymes.
Page 173 - EM (1997) X-ray structure of bacteriorhodopsin at 2.5 angstroms from microcrystals grown in lipidic cubic phases. Science 277, 1676-1681.
Page 444 - Isolation, crystallization, crystal structure analysis and refinement of constitutive C-phycocyanin from the chromatically adapting cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon at 1.66 A resolution.
Page 106 - Energy = hv = hc/\ ( 1 ) where h is Planck's constant, c is the speed of light, and v = c/\ is the frequency of the light.
Page 443 - Borner. 1997. Disruption of a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 gene with partial similarity to phytochrome genes alters growth under changing light qualities. FEBS Lett. 406: 89-92.
Page 190 - The eubacterium Ectothiorhodospira halophila is negatively phototactic, with a wavelength dependence that fits the absorption spectrum of the photoactive yellow protein. J.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Photomovement |
| Authors | D.-P. Häder, M. Lebert |
| Publisher | Elsevier, 2001 |
| ISBN | 008053886X, 9780080538860 |
| Length | 960 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical Science / Life Sciences / Biochemistry Science / Physics / Optics & Light |
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